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Re:Ride-hailing apps have allowed more binging and increased... by xt00 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:17AM (#21585166)
Yea the tipping point for self driving cars will be when it can drive you home while drunk legally. Probably will be made legal first someplace like South Korea — there you can easily pay somebody to show up with their buddy on a scooter to drive your car home for you with you in the passenger seat. The guy on the scooter follows you and picks up his buddy. I forget what the pricing was but it was something like 2x the cost of a taxi. So wasn’t actually too crazy.
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Re:Ride-hailing apps have allowed more binging and increased... by mailslot on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:19AM (#21585190)
There was an affordable service that would drive your car home for you. The problem leading to its failure, as I understand it, is that drunk people that needed it were too wasted to remember that it existed.
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Re:Ride-hailing apps have allowed more binging and increased... by justinator on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:19PM (#21586689)
That's funny in a sad way. I do remember that being a thing ~10 or 15 years ago - they were at least demo'ing it at one of the blocks in my city where a large concentration of bars could be found. I was very curious on the technology of their fold-able scooters (how quaint given Lime at al)

I could also imagine having to drive a drunk person's car home would be somehow risky, given that you have no idea how said person will act with their property.

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Re:Ride-hailing apps have allowed more binging and increased... by CalRobert on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:02AM (#21593593)
Years ago Top Gear did a bit on a service with small, foldable motorbikes that could be folded and put in the trunk. However, it didn't really save money compared to just taking a taxi both ways.
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Re:Ride-hailing apps have allowed more binging and increased... by jaclaz on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:24PM (#21597482)
I always found fascinating the "scoot" or "scooterman" (or similar) service, in the UK some cities have it.

You call them and someone will arrive on a foldable scooter, fold it and put in your car, drive you home with your car, then get his/her scooter and go away.

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