Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
by cm2187 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:57AM
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I completely agree. I wonder how self driving cars (i.e. no driver to watch you) are going to change that. The consensus is that we will be using shared cars as opposed to owning your own car. But if the tube in London gives us any indication, when you order a self driving car in London on a Saturday night, you are likely to find it covered with vomit and other bodily fluids. I do believe that owning a self driving car will still be a thing. (and for another reason: everyone will need it at the same time).
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Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
by jdietrich on Thursday April 06, 2017 @08:09AM
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It's a lot easier to pull a self-driving car out of service for cleaning than a six-carriage train. It's not unreasonable to expect that some combination of machine vision, Mechanical Turk and hands-on inspection will be able to detect a car with a soiled interior before it gets dispatched to another customer.
I imagine there will be plenty of teething problems and horror stories, but I don't think it's an insoluble problem.
Re:Ride-hailing apps may help to curb drunk driving
by dx034 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:07AM
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I think you might have a wrong impression of the tube. I use it quite often but cannot remember when I last saw vomit on a train. If at all rather on the platform as many people try to get off if they feel very sick but don't make it to the exit of the station. There are certainly many drunk people but also a fair share of people going from/to work late at night.