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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by ghaff on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:38PM (#14198812)
Heck. I have ladders/weedwhackers/etc. and other home/yard-maintenance and upkeep devices that probably sit idle for 99.9% of the time.
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by sxates on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @06:59PM (#14198981)
If your ladder could deliver itself to someone for $10/hr. (or a ladder could be delivered to you on demand) I suspect we'd have a lot less ladders.
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Re:Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders by ghaff on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @07:28PM (#14199172)
Maybe. There's an equipment rental place about a 10 minute drive away and, while I have rented from there, it really needs to be a once every multiple years sort of thing for the economics to work out. Something I use even just a few times a year doesn't make sense.
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