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Uber and Lyft actually succeeded in creating an accessible system that everyone could afford. You have it all backwards. The common person can actually afford U
by iopq 9y ago
Uber and Lyft actually succeeded in creating an accessible system that everyone could afford. You have it all backwards. The common person can actually afford Uber, not cabs.
- Tiktaalik 9y agoMany elderly people are no longer able to drive and aren't technically comfortable with using mobile phones. App based ride hailing dominance reduces accessibility.
- astrange 9y agoA button that calls you an Uber is as easy to build as a button that calls the taxi dispatcher for you, but I don’t think the elderly appreciate the taxi experience of demanding cash because they’re pretending the card reader broke. (You can already get a voice assistant to book a ride for you too.)
- marenkay 9y agoAsk your grandma etc if they would use that. Anyone above 50 these days will probably not give you a nice answer to having to use smartphones or voice assistants that usually understand less than a newborn child.
- brucephillips 9y agoYou've never met a newborn child.
- marenkay 9y agoHappen to have a grown up child. Duh.
- brucephillips 9y agoWho understood English at birth?
- 1_2__4 9y agoAs someone around that age get off your virtue signaling high horse. People in their fifties today helped build most of the tech you use every day, but even if they hadn’t your implicit ageism levied in service of an accessibility rant is a level of irony that just can’t be ignored.
- marenkay 9y agoConsidering my own age, it might happen that I just mentioned this because I am rather close to that generation myself. I seriously doubt people will be comfortable with this stuff unless they have a history with engineering/IT.
- dang 9y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines.
- 1_2__4 9y agoNo, it doesn’t. See we can both play the no proof game.