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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
by xt00 7y ago
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.
- mailslot 7y agoThere 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.
- justinator 7y agoThat'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.
- CalRobert 7y agoYears 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.
- jaclaz 7y agoI 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.