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I've never forgotten a Hacker News comment about the same idea - might have predated Uber even. If parking costs increase, and self-driving cars can recharge ch
by prawn 4y ago
I've never forgotten a Hacker News comment about the same idea - might have predated Uber even. If parking costs increase, and self-driving cars can recharge cheaply, then we'll see them slowly navigating streets en masse while waiting for their next gigs. Like a molasses taxi rank oozing around with no urgency.
- medellin 4y agoI already had this experience where i had to wait 30 minutes for someone to come pickup a car. Driving it around was cheaper than parking it for 30 minutes
- Firmwarrior 4y agohaha, I experienced this myself. My friend fell on some hard times, and it was actually a net financial gain for me to have him sleep on my couch and pay for his food, since he'd drive me to/pick me up from work in downtown Seattle and save me $30/day on parking (or 60+ minutes a day in crappy bus commuting)
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- kiliantics 4y agoAs someone who mostly cycles to get around the city, I would love this situation. I could get around everywhere so quickly between all the car-tar without the fear of being killed by a careless human driver. But if this thought experiment teaches anything, it's that we should give public pathways over to non-car users way before we ever get to this stage. We've already gone way too far out of our way for cars. Make most roads bike/train/tram only and save one or two lanes max for delivery trucks and maybe buses.
- lotsoweiners 4y agoNot gonna happen...next idea?
- tomcam 4y agoI’m going to call my 60s cover band Molasses Taxi Rank
- prawn 4y agoLiner notes credit please. (Are there still liner notes?)
- thedrbrian 4y agoThe best I can do is an ID3v2 mention.
- tomcam 4y agoSold
- tomcam 4y agoWe’ll do a vinyl release as a tribute to your nominal brilliance