One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Scooter-Bots

Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by lacker on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:10PM (#21265580)

When I read the title I was hoping it was a strategy to remove trash, needles, and human waste from the streets of San Francisco. But no, the only problem addressed here is keeping scooters off the sidewalk.

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Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by jdlyga on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:02PM (#21273394)

I live in Manhattan, and I literally have never seen human waste anywhere in NYC since I've lived here. Plenty of dog poop, maybe a needle in sketchy areas. But San Francisco is another level of screwed up these days.

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Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by the_gastropod on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:22PM (#21274365)

How long have you lived in manhattan? It's not common, but neither is it rare, to have to step over some human poop on the stairs of subway stations.

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Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by kps on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @11:27AM (#21271412)

My first take on keeping the sidewalk clear was snow, of course, and wondering how you'd get enough battery life to push any useful amount. But seeing the domain name made it obvious they didn't mean snow.

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Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by situational87 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:07PM (#21271932)

I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States.

Thank god we have a log(n) solution to the epidemic of scooters on streets. Thank you technology. I hope all the Series A investors were able to get that new electric Porsche and didn't have to settle for a Corvette like some filthy commoner.

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Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by wavefunction on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:50PM (#21272506)

>I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States.

It's certainly not a regular part of life in the United States. It may be (but probably isn't) a regular part of your own life in the United States.

I've made eye contact with a pooping homeless person in the United States zero times over four decades of life.

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Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by kop316 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:20PM (#21274339)

> I made eye contact with a homeless person pooping again today. This has become a regular part of life in the United States.

I think you mean "This has become a regular part of life in the city I live in." That is so outside of regular life in the vast majority of the USA that I can't comprehend seeing it once.

In what city is that an actual regular part of life?

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Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by toper-centage on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @03:22PM (#21274362)

The US has shitty public transit. Solution? Over-pice scotter scattered around the city that will never turn a profit.

The US has a shitty scooter problem. Solution? More scooters, but these has cameras, and they are self driving. They help clear the sidewalks of the other shitty solution.

The US is a chain of shitty decisions that never address real problems, but cause the next generation of problems to keep the economy running.

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Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by beamatronic on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @11:15AM (#21271260)

San Francisco problems require San Francisco solutions.

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Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by kps on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @02:18PM (#21273583)

Autonomous mobile portapotties as a service.

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Re:One Way to Keep the Sidewalk Clear: Remote-Controlled Sco... by QueridoGuy on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @01:47PM (#21273158)

Hacker news should add a secondary vote button for title accuracy, or any way to validate titles.

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