Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'
by biomcgary on Monday April 25, 2016 @04:13PM
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Sharing a vehicle is not fun when the other driver could: 1. wreck it, 2. not return it promptly, 3. trash it. A self-driving car solves problem 1, partially solves 2, and does nothing for 3.
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Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'
by maxxxxx on Monday April 25, 2016 @04:26PM
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I guess a self driving shared car needs also to be self cleaning. that may work.
Re:Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'
by yourapostasy on Monday April 25, 2016 @07:30PM
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Put together a amalgam self-driving Sanisette [1] and you implement an even more ridiculous aspect of Idiocracy than its La-Z-Boy with a built-in toilet [2]. And while I make a joke about it now, someones in the future are going to convince a line of VCs to incrementally enable people eventually gaming/Facebooking in VR while hurtling down the freeway doing Number Two, and get handsome exits on each step towards that, and it will all be counted as a net economic benefit in the end. I'm either kidding, or will have checked out well before that ever becomes mainstream.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette
[2] http://www.eatmedaily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/...
