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Yeah, cars should be clogging streets because people want to go get a hamburger instead.
by furyofantares 1y ago
Yeah, 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.
- paxys 1y agoIt probably depends on where you live but I haven't had a food delivery in a car in like 3-4 years now. Drivers use bikes, e-bikes and mopeds.
- Capricorn2481 1y agoIn the U.S. unless you're in a big city, it's always cars.
- witherk 1y agoIt depends on what you consider the goal to be. If the goal is bring a hamburger and person to the same location. It doesn't really matter which is in the car.
- bobbylarrybobby 1y agoA car wouldn't become more productive if you were to strap a person to the roof. If you instead happen to move that person inside the car for the trip, what exactly changes?
- 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?)