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You know that bicycles are a thing too, right? Low-tech, muscle powered, no gas required, repairable, fast, and flexible too. High tech is not the answer to ev

• trhway 1y ago
  why there aren't autonomous bicycles or the autonomous things in that class? I remember those "cockroaches" on Castro in the mid-201x, saw recently another significantly larger "cockroach" around Palo Alto, yet they slow, and cumbersome in their presence on the sidewalk, and don't seem to be made for the road. Looking at the bicyclists "texting while biking" i think the delivery wouldn't be the only market for an autonomous bicycles. Sidenote: heard that Tesla added an "aggressive mode" to its FSD in which it would drive at higher speeds and would make more aggressive maneuvers. I suppose it isn't just Tesla as after more than decade of docile behavior of Waymo cars i've been recently aggressively cut by a Waymo, and few weeks before that a Waymo car asserted it's well out-of-normal left turn trajectory forcing us to give it way to avoid being barreled by it. Interesting whether such an aggressive autonomous driving would shorten the burrito delivery time.
  • windward 1y ago
    Getting drivers stuck behind what is visibly an autonomous burrito taxi will make anti-cyclist rage look tame
    • trhway 1y ago
      The robot wouldn’t mind getting to the side and letting traffic pass, and the drivers would appreciate such polite and considerate road behavior which thus will generate a lot of positive attitude toward the robots. I think we can state the 0th law of robots as “don’t be an ass”.
• tuukkah 1y ago
  E-bikes etc. are very popular. The long shifts are probably quite tiring otherwise.