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Did uber?
by asdff 10mo ago
Did uber?
- hackmiester 10mo agoDrunk driving goes down significantly, for one thing.
- asdff 10mo agoHard to control for that against the decline in social drinking in general
- lotsoweiners 10mo agoIt might but I’ll be still driving home “intoxicated” so long as the vehicle I drove to the drinking establishment can’t drive itself home. This is why I prefer the model for personal self driving vehicles.
- wiredpancake 10mo ago[dead]
- fragmede 10mo agoTesla FSD will pull over if you fall asleep while driving. Ford's will just plow into the median for you. Their relative stock prices reflect this.
- tpm 9mo agoThere is a service/app for this in South Korea (Daeri Unjeon, "proxy driving"); a guy will drive you in your car to your home.
- weirdmantis69 9mo agobut then that guy has to get home somehow
- tpm 9mo agoSure, they carry a escooter or work in pairs - the second one has a car and picks him up at the destination.
- nerdsniper 10mo agoHonestly, in a lot of ways, yes. I'm a massive critic of Uber, but outside of the hotel areas and nicest neighborhoods, it was often incredibly difficult to successfully call a taxi to pick you up before Uber. I remember once playing ball all day in the front yard, calling all the taxi companies just on a lark. They'd claim they were sending a driver, that the driver pulled up and honked, but we were outside the entire time. No one ever actually drove up over about 20 calls to 6 cab companies. Uber/Lyft finally served all neighborhoods mostly equally, and that was a huge benefit.
- triceratops 10mo agoWhy were you calling cabs you had no intention of taking?
- nerdsniper 10mo agoWe would have taken the cabs and grabbed some drinks. We were well-entertained either way. One of the few times that worked well for the experiment.