Why exactly should we cry for the manufacturers of cheap plastic toys that will be thrown into a landfill in 3 months? Let 'em bankrupt, wouldn't be any great loss.
Why do kids need the latest plastic toy fad made by $1/hr workers in some sweatshop?
Buy them toys that make them THINK creatively and allow them to build. Paints and a canvas, electronics set, chemistry set, Legos, Erector sets, Capsela (yep, re-released), electric trains.
Those kinds of things seldom go through fads, so bots are unlikely to be a problem. And you can buy them in brick 'n mortar shops.
The user should have the choice for the data to stay local. No "caring and sharing" with cloud providers (including Apple) without consent. Imagine if insurance companies got access to this kind of data and used it to deny coverage, or price customers out of the market. ACA and community rating may not last forever, sadly.
Couldn't the app use the deliverator's phone GPS to determine distance to target automagically without the deliverator entering data into a server directly?
That's not how it's done. The train that's passing through at speed takes the straight-line route. Points don't affect its speed. The train that's stopping at a station is the one that will be shunted to the side by points.
Then you're stuck in a small box with either a limited number of people (all of your party may not fit), or potentially harmful people whom you can't get away from.
I hope they won't use this as an excuse to cut back on fiber availability. Fiber is stable, isn't affected by interference, weather conditions (outside of damage to poles), etc, etc. It also provides a somewhat more secure channel.
Also: this should come first in rural areas that don't have any Internet options other than satellite -- this is the perfect tech for rural area where rolling out fiber infrastructure is expensive.
Part of the environmental benefit of electric transit is actually NOT needing to use environmentally-costly batteries, with their manufacturing/recycling problems and charging losses. Powering a vehicle directly from a contact rail or overhead wire is a lot better environmentally.
Human exposure is not a major issue -- stick the contact rail or wire overhead as they do in some metro systems. Train stations with a low platform and 10,000v (or more) overhead wire are pretty common. The tracks (ground return) are at 0 volts, so safe to touch.
So you have to either drag your car along or be isolated in a small cube which may or may not have room for your entire group. And no space to walk away if "rowdy" types get into the same "car" as you.
A subway doesn't need to move at 30 mph and stop 50% of the time. There can be express service at 100+ mph given the right curve radius in the tunnel, cars, and power system.
(1) There's already an electric train (2) Why NOT have rails in the tunnel? They add little to the cost compared to drilling a tunnel, they drastically simplify guidance at high speeds, and they act as an electric power return path.
(Also, metal to metal friction is lower than metal to concrete.)
This is basically an automated subway using single cars, without the rails and, thus, with more difficult guidance issues.
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Why exactly should we cry for the manufacturers of cheap plastic toys that will be thrown into a landfill in 3 months? Let 'em bankrupt, wouldn't be any great loss.
Why do kids need the latest plastic toy fad made by $1/hr workers in some sweatshop? Buy them toys that make them THINK creatively and allow them to build. Paints and a canvas, electronics set, chemistry set, Legos, Erector sets, Capsela (yep, re-released), electric trains. Those kinds of things seldom go through fads, so bots are unlikely to be a problem. And you can buy them in brick 'n mortar shops.
Afib CAN cause strokes due to blood not flowing correctly and forming small clots, though.
The user should have the choice for the data to stay local. No "caring and sharing" with cloud providers (including Apple) without consent. Imagine if insurance companies got access to this kind of data and used it to deny coverage, or price customers out of the market. ACA and community rating may not last forever, sadly.
Couldn't the app use the deliverator's phone GPS to determine distance to target automagically without the deliverator entering data into a server directly?
Because maybe they're from a corner of flyoveria where good pizza doesn't exist?
Domino's is not pizza. It's soggy bread covered with salt-laden "cheese" and artificially flavored "sauce."
Want pizza? I can raise you many local places that sell the real stuff. Domino's is to pizza as Mickey Dee's is to a good steak sandwich.
Sedition is just another term for unpopular speech.
Yep, the city and state attorney generals' offices are pretty bad ass in NY as far as consumer advocacy.
That's not how it's done. The train that's passing through at speed takes the straight-line route. Points don't affect its speed. The train that's stopping at a station is the one that will be shunted to the side by points.
Then you're stuck in a small box with either a limited number of people (all of your party may not fit), or potentially harmful people whom you can't get away from.
Fiber availability is still expanding in NYC. Thankfully. Having a glorified cell antenna is a sorry excuse for Internet access.
Isn't the point of public transit NOT to have to deal with your car?
I hope they won't use this as an excuse to cut back on fiber availability. Fiber is stable, isn't affected by interference, weather conditions (outside of damage to poles), etc, etc. It also provides a somewhat more secure channel.
Also: this should come first in rural areas that don't have any Internet options other than satellite -- this is the perfect tech for rural area where rolling out fiber infrastructure is expensive.
Maybe you were hanging out with the wrong people, then.
Part of the environmental benefit of electric transit is actually NOT needing to use environmentally-costly batteries, with their manufacturing/recycling problems and charging losses. Powering a vehicle directly from a contact rail or overhead wire is a lot better environmentally. Human exposure is not a major issue -- stick the contact rail or wire overhead as they do in some metro systems. Train stations with a low platform and 10,000v (or more) overhead wire are pretty common. The tracks (ground return) are at 0 volts, so safe to touch.
So you have to either drag your car along or be isolated in a small cube which may or may not have room for your entire group. And no space to walk away if "rowdy" types get into the same "car" as you.
Old tech -- elevated trains on a concrete elevated viaduct with rails bolted to the concrete (with rubber pads) would be much quieter.
What if you don't have a car? Or don't want to bring one to/from the airport?
A subway doesn't need to move at 30 mph and stop 50% of the time. There can be express service at 100+ mph given the right curve radius in the tunnel, cars, and power system.
Meaning that either some cars will be running empty or groups of people will be split up.
Rails are a minor part of the cost of a tunnel. Especially considering there needs to be a power supply system anyway.
Electric, self-guided busway. Basically all the costs of a subway with more guidance issues at high speed.
(1) There's already an electric train
(2) Why NOT have rails in the tunnel? They add little to the cost compared to drilling a tunnel, they drastically simplify guidance at high speeds, and they act as an electric power return path.
(Also, metal to metal friction is lower than metal to concrete.)
This is basically an automated subway using single cars, without the rails and, thus, with more difficult guidance issues.
I mean, leprosy is available in the US for un-infected people, but it's not as if there's a big line to be infected.