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Cars clogging streets because someone wants a hamburger delivered… We live in a very dumb era.
by dotcoma 1y ago
Cars clogging streets because someone wants a hamburger delivered…
We live in a very dumb era.
- BurningFrog 1y agoThe streets are just as clogged when they drive to the restaurant to eat.
- dotcoma 1y agoYou are both right in saying that cars are the root of all problems in urban and suburban areas. Delivery, however, has increased the number of times people buy a meal made by somebody else. I doubt this is good for anybody's health, and it's certainly not good for the planet's health.
- dheera 1y ago> Delivery, however, has increased the number of times people buy a meal made by somebody else. No, I'd say it's work expectations that have increased the number. I took a several-month career gap and didn't order delivery even once. Delivered food tastes bad and as long as I have time I either make food (most of the time) or dine-in. But when "everything is on fire" and deadlines are tonight, delivery it is.
- Zambyte 1y agoThey already said we live in a very dumb era.
- furyofantares 1y agoYeah, cars should be clogging streets because people want to go get a hamburger instead.
- themafia 1y agoThe convenience factor means people will utilize one option more often than the other. These are not equivalent exchanges.
- fainpul 1y agoBut you understand that cars are made to transport people, and hamburgers are much smaller than people, hence it would be a tiny bit wasteful to drive hamburgers in "people cars", right?
- keeda 1y agoBut then a single car can carry multiple hamburgers to multiple people! Maybe that is still a better situation than multiple people driving multiple cars to each get a single hamburger :-)
- ok_dad 1y agoSo we need a car that drives around and makes hamburgers on-demand, drives to your home while it's being prepared, and delivers it hot and fresh to your door with a smaller bot. To be clear, we do not need this, and I am being sarcastic. However, if a VC wants to fund me to do this, I'll try my best in the hours between my use of the startup's office sim-rig and the office wood workshop.
- joshstrange 1y agoI believe you've (re)invented food trucks :)
- ok_dad 1y agoAutomated, VC-funded food trucks! Shittier food with less heart for twice the price!
- dotcoma 1y agoAnd they scale! ;)
- warkdarrior 1y agoAnd when the truck runs out of ingredients to make hamburgers, a drone flies in and picks it up to take it to a ingredient-refill station.
- asdff 1y agoIf only someone invented some sort of 25lb vehicle that one can use their own human power to travel upon. Maybe something with a chain and gearing? No, that would be fantasy, back to my 5000lb steel block I go.
- BHSPitMonkey 1y agoThe point of comparison here would be a human delivery driver, who (as I understand) can be carrying multiple deliveries at a time. I think with Waymo's service, it's one delivery at a time, which results in more cars on the road for the same demand? (Or are there potentially several orders in the trunk when you go to get yours out?)
- ponector 1y agoAnd one can pay for that hamburger in four installments!
- dotcoma 1y agoAgree to paying a fifth installment and you can get your hamburger pre-chewed.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoAs long as the delivery doesn't occur during rush hour, you probably won't notice it much.
- themafia 1y agoThe environment will.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoYou mean the emissions from the EV doing the delivery? Or the emissions from the hydro or solar or wind (or even natural gas) used to generate the electricity that was stored in the battery?
- themafia 1y agoThe absurd waste of energy in moving a 4000lb object to deliver a 1lb object. You can attribute that to whatever source you want. It's still wasted energy.
- Rebelgecko 1y agoIt'll bring the heat death of the universe a fraction of a picosecond closer
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoWasted energy isn't exactly emissions. The claim was really specific, so I wanted to figure out what they meant by it. Of course, on the east coast they use a lot more coal, so there is a point to made I guess. I think it is dumb to use Waymo cars, but E-bikes would work really well here. I'm sure whoever breaks through this market will come with some sort of light vehicle solution. Waymo seems to be doing this as a side project to use their vehicles when ride share demand is low.
- dbancajas 1y ago1 waymo car delivering 10 hamburgers to 5 different houses better than 5 cars on the street.