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These are solved problems in other cities All anyone has to do is look across the land
by yieldcrv 11mo ago
These are solved problems in other cities
All anyone has to do is look across the land
- et-al 11mo agoWhere is this a solved problem? No one likes these things. Seth Rogan reflects the zeitgeist in Platonic.
- yieldcrv 11mo agoLos Angeles, including Santa Monica, LA City, West Hollywood others
- reaperducer 11mo agoLos Angeles, including Santa Monica, LA City, West Hollywood others > A delivery robot collided with a disabled man on L.A. street. The aftermath is getting ugly https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-25/viral-video-of-delivery-robot-colliding-with-man-in-wheelchair-sparks-accessibility-debate https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-25/viral-vi... You employ an interesting definition of "solved."
- yieldcrv 11mo agoThat video is hilarious, the “aftermath” is a funny video and that article, by the way. Thats it so I’m having this discussion with parts of the country half a decade behind and this is the level of nuance as if it was half a decade ago? Is that what’s happening? Because thats even funnier
- nickthegreek 11mo agoSo no snow and not much rain?
- miltonlost 11mo agoHow are these solved problems when robot deliveries on sidewalks are a new phenomenon? Also, what other cities?
- Fricken 11mo agoThey aren't that new. Starship Technologies, founded in 2014, has performed over 9 million deliveries across 270 locations.
- exasperaited 11mo agoThat’s… not many at all, really. You could do it in a year with ninety deliveries per day per location (well, 92). Assuming a dozen robots per location, that's less than eight deliveries per day per robot (and even that might be beyond their upper bound, actually, given their speed and range). But then they didn't do it all in one year. So… it doesn't feel like a stretch. Given how many will be recurring customers with recurring journey routes, it feels barely enough to encounter all the possible unique problems.
- Fricken 11mo agoStarship is just one company. There are dozens in the west. In China there are hundreds of sidewalk delivery robot start-ups. We're not talking about all the "Possible unique problems", we're just talking about the really obvious ones that are easy to think up .
- yieldcrv 11mo agoBy new you mean half a decade? Los Angeles, including Santa Monica, LA City, West Hollywood others Been around since 2020, multiple companies here They’ve all gone through several iterations, debates, and approvals to reach symbiosis
- phil21 11mo agoMy wife is nearing 40 and she had these things delivering food at her midwestern college town back when she was still in school. Limited rollout and obviously an ideal environment, but these things are nowhere near new.