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What about an Uber Eats scooter? Also, a drone can be a last mile delivery method, where the very heavy truck ends up doing relatively long runs for single smal
by dmos62 6y ago
What about an Uber Eats scooter? Also, a drone can be a last mile delivery method, where the very heavy truck ends up doing relatively long runs for single small packages.
- adrianN 6y agoInstead of replacing Uber Eats scooters with even louder drones, how about we replace them with silent eletric scooters, or bicycles? This can be done today, without any new technology or additional safety concerns.
- einpoklum 6y agoHow about we replace these sctooers with local eateries/restaurants/cafeterias which you walk to, meet people at, and eat locally-produced, locally-sourced food?
- adrianN 6y agoI'd be in favor, but that seems a lot harder than buying electric scooters.
- thatfunkymunki 6y agoSomehow I think demolishing the suburbs is somewhat out of scope for this discussion
- Nasrudith 6y agoTrust me people would complain far more about the smell of local micronranches and micro farms, even ignoring the economics involved.
- einpoklum 6y ago1. Complaining is a national sport in many countries... I'd probably be doing a lot of complaining myself - but I would have a community context in which to complain. 2. I didn't say there would be micro-farms and micro-ranches. I don't believe in "village-level" autarchy. But in my view there should be much less ferrying of food from halfway across the world because people work there for a couple of USD per day and ship fuel is (still) cheap. 3. My point was that it's a huge waste of social resources, not to mention fuel, to send out vehicles across town to deliver food. It's also part of a process of social atomization where more and more of our interactions are mediated and modulated by impersonal commercial processes.