I keep seeing this connection being made between self-driving vehicles and public transport as though you need one to have the other. "High-density Singapore has been encouraging the development of driverless technology in hopes that its residents will use more shared vehicles and public transport." Do they really think that their residents won't use public transport unless it's driverless? Or can Singapore not afford bus drivers?
Dockless bikes cause the same problem, but they're even worse because they're heavier and harder to move than the scooters. And if people don't leave them in the middle of the sidewalk then instead they leave them on the grass between the sidewalk and the street so that the homeowner has to move them when they want to mow the grass. Yes, you can text/call the company to have them removed, but it takes a while for them to get around to doing ti and sometimes they text back moronic questions like "Do you want us to come get it?" as though I'm complaining about it but want them to leave it there.
If I'm getting grocery delivery, I want someone to bring it right up to my door, or preferably into my kitchen. I don't want to have to go out to the street and take the bags out of a car. If I'm going to be lazy, I'm going all-out!
Geo = GMC Saturn = GMC Lexus = Toyota Scion = Toyota Kia = Hyundai (though they were producing vehicles independently and for other companies such as Ford for ~50 years)
If your SSN is used for identity theft, you can get a new one. If your retinal pattern is stolen, you're screwed. How screwed you are depends on exactly what it's being used for and the security of the scanners being used (e.g. are they at the airport where they're being monitored (hah) by the security people or are they in at an unattended location like an ATM where someone could hack into the data connection and feed in a copy of your scan.)
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I keep seeing this connection being made between self-driving vehicles and public transport as though you need one to have the other. "High-density Singapore has been encouraging the development of driverless technology in hopes that its residents will use more shared vehicles and public transport." Do they really think that their residents won't use public transport unless it's driverless? Or can Singapore not afford bus drivers?
Dockless bikes cause the same problem, but they're even worse because they're heavier and harder to move than the scooters. And if people don't leave them in the middle of the sidewalk then instead they leave them on the grass between the sidewalk and the street so that the homeowner has to move them when they want to mow the grass. Yes, you can text/call the company to have them removed, but it takes a while for them to get around to doing ti and sometimes they text back moronic questions like "Do you want us to come get it?" as though I'm complaining about it but want them to leave it there.
Not tech workers. Millennials. Just like they think they invented roommates, renting out you house, hitchhiking, ...
And "side hustle". What is this, prison?
If I'm getting grocery delivery, I want someone to bring it right up to my door, or preferably into my kitchen. I don't want to have to go out to the street and take the bags out of a car. If I'm going to be lazy, I'm going all-out!
I can already pay my registration over the internet with my plain old metal plate.
This doesn't count all of the times that the human had to take over because the car *would* have caused an accident.
Or the rebadged gorilla:
Geo = GMC
Saturn = GMC
Lexus = Toyota
Scion = Toyota
Kia = Hyundai (though they were producing vehicles independently and for other companies such as Ford for ~50 years)
If your SSN is used for identity theft, you can get a new one. If your retinal pattern is stolen, you're screwed. How screwed you are depends on exactly what it's being used for and the security of the scanners being used (e.g. are they at the airport where they're being monitored (hah) by the security people or are they in at an unattended location like an ATM where someone could hack into the data connection and feed in a copy of your scan.)