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The driverless [insert accommodation here] thing is a great idea, but no one ever discusses how the hell these things are cleaned. One thing that keeps me from
by drivingmenuts 9y ago
The driverless [insert accommodation here] thing is a great idea, but no one ever discusses how the hell these things are cleaned.
One thing that keeps me from being all about car-sharing is the idea of having to sit in someone else's funk. Humans are nasty and disgusting and constantly outgassing, consciously or unconsciously, and some of those emanations are downright hazardous.
So why is everyone completely ignoring how we clean all these driverless, shared things?
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoHow do you handle taxis?
- drivingmenuts 9y agoI don't. I don't recall ever having ridden in a taxi. I have ridden the bus, but was kind of grossed out by the experience.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoI guess you are American then right? I'm not sure how a life of private transportation would be possible otherwise...because that doesn't happen in the rest of the world.
- a3n 9y ago> no one ever discusses how the hell these things are cleaned. The same people who clean your cube now, because they're cheap and no one is responsible for them.
- jamesrcole 9y agoIt's unclear how the problem would be different to the issue of cleaning any other shared space (hotel room, taxi, food court in a shopping mall, etc). Why couldn't you get cleaners (either people, or since we're discussing the future, possibly robots) to do it? It's not like these things would have to be containing a passenger 100% of the time -- get it cleaned in the downtime.