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I've been thinking about setting up twilio with PiHole so I can just copy-paste-sms a url to unblock for people on my network.

Any idea of the feasibility of this?

I think that "using arbitrary roads" is a relatively hard part of self-driving.

Yeah, the biking model seems fairly easy to speculate on, but sort of hard to pin down. Here's some speculation from a per bike perspective.

Revenue

  daily rides*365*$1

Costs

    $250 per bike
  + $15 per month for maintenance
  + 20% chance of catastrophe amortized over the fleet
  = ~$500

+ rebalancers + insurance + overhead?

So maybe 2 rides per bike per day gets them in the green?

I'm not as certain about that. Potentially optimistic, but I could imagine bikes taking on a larger role as we move to self driving cars.

If you read threads about biking[0], people seem to be motivated to bike more than they are motivated to drive. Although these same people are stymied by negative conditions. Self driving cars could improve biking conditions by opening up roadways, making them safer, providing better point to point transit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16420271

We sure seem to buy a lot of bikes, but it doesn't seem like a proportionate number of people are riding them.

I suppose bikes fit in this interesting niche of being a leisure item/exercise item, but because there's potential for everyday/practical usage people are more willing to buy than other leisure items? I'm not sure.