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We can do anecdotes back and forth, but many people would absolutely love “Uber but there’s not a stranger in the front seat.”
by ketzo 5y ago
We can do anecdotes back and forth, but many people would absolutely love “Uber but there’s not a stranger in the front seat.”
- asdff 5y agoThey will love it until they are leaving from the bar and the last bar attendee left them a big wet bile-smelling present all over the seat. At least when this sort of thing happens on a bus there are other seats you could use.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoReject the ride due to cleanliness and request another one.
- asdff 5y agoAnd who knows how long that will take? In some places it takes long enough just to request a single uber trip much less two in a row. Imagine how livid you'd get when a half hour after you first intended to leave the bar, the second self driving car arrives, and it to is soiled.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoHey, with a huge fleet of self driving cars that aren’t taking Saturday night off and only have mostly bar traffic to consider, I think you’ll manage. And the robot won’t take offense.
- olivermarks 5y ago'Your ride request has been refused due to your social credit score, spare the air day and your recent equity transgressions. Here is a 5% off coupon for sensible walking shoes'. It's not the robot that might take offense, it's the folks in the panopticon and their databases.
- noah_buddy 5y agoPerhaps people would "love" that but I have a feeling that the continued retreat from all forms of socialization due to technology is not a good thing by and large for society. I would guess that most people who think they desire this wouldn't even think they desire it in terms of safety but instead in terms of avoiding distraction or awkwardness.
- dymk 5y agoTechnology lets me socialize an order of magnitude more than I'd otherwise. We as a species have never been more connected. If it also gives me respite from having to engage with someone I'd rather not in a car, all the better. Honestly, we could all use a bit more of a break from each other, in my opinion.
- noah_buddy 5y agoPoint well taken, I meant physical / proximal socialization. I would contend that most forms of socialization over the internet are lower quality than a candid conversation with a stranger in a car ride.