From 1990
Posted on 07/06/2019 11:49:02 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
...the goal is NOT regular people playing taxi, it’s driverless taxis
Yes, of course it is. That isn't a problem to be solved, it's a way of eliminating the jobs and incomes of people who actually work for a living.
There’s some roads in the Ozarks I’d like to see these robot cars drive. Especial after a heavy rain washes them out.
Especial after a heavy rain washes them out.
If there is no road, then it is impassable.
But if your basic beater can roll through, so will the automated driver.
Slower than most, but I have been through Arkansaw many times.
The drivers are not as bad as Detroit, or late night Chicago, but instead of going crazy fast, some do and some barely move.
The next day after I was at the Crater of Diamonds they found a BIG ONE! I probably stepped right over it.
Depends on what angle you’re looking at it from. From the point of view of a company that wants to make money running taxis the cost of licenses and medallions is very much a problem. You’ve got to make sure a driver can make enough money for the $200K they shelled out on the medallion to make sense, which means you’ve got to charge more, and you’re going to price some customers out. That’s a problem.
[[We’re interacting and getting along just fine without being face to face. ]]
I’ll have to disagree on this one point. Especially with the younger people. Social skills have fallen off quite considerably with the advent of smart phones and other “remote interaction” technology.
“A good part of the guidance is the same as you use“
Which ads you to my amazement. The system adapts to all types of roads doesn’t seem to get confused by potholes, different pavement or any number of insignificant changes in the actual roads. Truly modern marvel.
That problem is, living in a place where it's not practical to own a vehicle.
No, that problem is overcooked government regulation that sees people who want to work as a source of revenue. But also one of just basic math. Businesses always want to shrink costs. Self driving cars have been the dream of the commercial driving industry for a long long time.
Licensing requirements are not "overcooked government regulation", from the standpoint of basic economics, a license to operate a cab generates rent, same goes for a liquor license. Owning a car is another activity that requires a license, but increases liberty, while not owning a pool of vehicles that will be similarly limited in number in order to keep them profitable decreases it.
You a city boy, ain’t cha?
You a city boy, ain’t cha?
The view of my father’s family, born and raised on the family farm of the last 200 years.And still there.
YES!
I remember my great grandmother living in the tiniest house with a hand pump on the kitchen sink, she died there at 106!!!
My mother’s family came out of Germany to Chicago in the late 1800s, and still there.
NO!
We live out in the sticks on the edge of Indian country.
A favorite pastime is to flaunt their knowledge about the streets and alleys of Chicago. I dropped the name Agatite, An odd little street that stops and starts and goes nowhere. They were not impressed.
I used to pheasant hunt at the end of the street we live on, now mostly houses, but still a few acres of corn/soybeans.
From 1990
When a license to drive a cab costs 200 grand (used to cost a million) that is serious overcooked government regulation.
Riiiight. Used to cost $1 million, now is one fifth of that. The best part of the Johnny Cabs will be the complete lack of licensing fees imposed by the gubmints.
Shouldn’t cost anything. The whole medallion thing is a pure scam. It’s unrelated to the license, it’s just “permission” to be a cabby, acquired solely through cash. This is in addition to the the chauffeurs which at least involves some testing and such.
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