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jamal posted:We should, like, make really big cars that can carry 40-50 people at a time. Perhaps also build sections of road designated for their use only, to bypass traffic snags and encourage their use?
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jamal posted:We should, like, make really big cars that can carry 40-50 people at a time. They could be used for all sorts of purposes. Like taking kids to school.....
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May 25, 2019 21:08
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I had a friend describe to me a new ride share service in Austin, a few years a go, that picked up multiple people and followed a fixed route. "That's a bus," I said.
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May 25, 2019 21:42
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wesleywillis posted:They could be used for all sorts of purposes. Like taking kids to school..... They don't need to be profitable, so maybe collect taxes on fuel to pay for it?
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May 25, 2019 21:55
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MetaJew posted:I had a friend describe to me a new ride share service in Austin, a few years a go, that picked up multiple people and followed a fixed route. Figuring out how to get yuppies to take the bus by charging 10x as much for it is the real disruptive tech.
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May 26, 2019 01:37
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Bus drivers in most places are unionized and paid a reasonable public sector wage and benefits, so that's a thing that needs to be disrupted.
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May 26, 2019 01:47
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Finger Prince posted:Figuring out how to get yuppies to take the bus by charging 10x as much for it is the real disruptive tech. And no poors that you have to share it with! MetaJew fucked around with this message at 03:16 on May 26, 2019 |
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May 26, 2019 01:49
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MetaJew posted:I had a friend describe to me a new ride share service in Austin, a few years a go, that picked up multiple people and followed a fixed route. That sounds like the electric cabs you see downtown and in the Domain. They look like they'd explode into fiberglass and various human body parts if they got so much as tapped by an actual car, but they pull right out into traffic puttering along doing 10 mph. TBH I hadn't seen them in the Domain before, but I see them on 6th St and on Rainey all the time. And contrary to that article, they seem to run until about 2 or 3am on both 6th and Rainey.
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May 26, 2019 10:46
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My place has an incredibly good public 'ride sharing' service now. It's a fleet of electric Ioniqs and wheelchair-accessible minibuses. They can pick you up at any bus stop, bring you to any bus stop, for just a small premium above the normal bus ticket price. In the small cars you'll ride alone and you'll go directly towards your destination, in the bus there's typically one or two other people so there might be a shirt stop on the way. You can set your pick up time in increments of 15 minutes, it alerts you when the driver is on their way, and it's just as fast as driving yourself. I'm absolutely loving it.
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May 26, 2019 21:17
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Lord Stimperor posted:My place has an incredibly good public 'ride sharing' service now. It's a fleet of electric Ioniqs and wheelchair-accessible minibuses. That sounds like the worst depths of hell. We need all the public/easy/inexpensive transit we can get. But in reality it needs to be awful in every possible way. 
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May 26, 2019 22:54
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My last Uber ride my driver asked me if it was ok to vape. Nothing but the best.
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May 27, 2019 00:51
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C-Bangin' it 
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Did you tell him that it was ok as long as you could spark a cigarette?
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May 27, 2019 03:12
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My most recent Uber had leather seats, crank windows, a check engine light, and lots of suspension noises.
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May 27, 2019 06:48
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StormDrain posted:My most recent Uber had leather seats, crank windows, a check engine light, and lots of suspension noises. BMW or Audi?
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The Door Frame posted:Did you tell him that it was ok as long as you could spark a cigarette? Heh. Who knows. Funny thing was how he bitched about other uber drivers giving him a bad rating between taking drags from his vape thing. (The guy was rated 4.88 or something like that out of 5). He was complaining about this other uber driver that was drunk as hell that he gave a ride to that gave him a bad review. For the record, he drove a Jeep Cherokee and maybe I wouldn't hear these things if I weren't riding shotgun.
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May 27, 2019 14:36
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who rides shotgun in a rideshare?
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May 27, 2019 14:45
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sneakyfrog posted:who rides shotgun in a rideshare? A guy that doesn't have a phobia talking with strangers combined with greater legroom.
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May 27, 2019 14:57
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oh its not the talking part that bugs me i just thought that was how it was done, the one time i got in front dude just looked at me like i grew another head
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May 27, 2019 14:59
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Ah, sorry misunderstood. On "my" driver that was going to pick me up it said "likes to talk" so thought what the hell.
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May 27, 2019 15:12
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StormDrain posted:My most recent Uber had leather seats, crank windows, a check engine light, and lots of suspension noises. I don't drive for Uber though 
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May 27, 2019 15:23
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I've had great convos with retired people who drive during the day, even the younger people are pretty chill if the sun's out The last time I had a real conversation with a rideshare driver at night, I found out he was a second generation Mexican immigrant who was super into Trump, eugenics, and chemtrails halfway through my 45 minute ride
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May 27, 2019 15:40
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i dunno my last driver was like hey would you mind some music and im like whatever is cool pal, and thats how i almost went deaf listening to very loud jesus music in spanish at 3am
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May 27, 2019 15:43
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Uthor posted:BMW or Audi? I honestly thought people would guess it was a Chrysler product. A non Wrangler jeep, which is believe it was a Patriot. It was the cleanest car in poor mechanical shape I've ever ridden in. When my Saturn started slipping downhill mechanically so did the cleanliness.
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May 27, 2019 16:28
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The one and only time I've been in an uber, co-worker and I were chatting with the driver, and I mentioned that it was pretty dope she was driving a manual car and I was all "Automatics are for COMMUNISTS"!! Her response was "I'm half Russian and Half Cuban". At least she had a laugh about the comment though.
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May 27, 2019 16:53
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wesleywillis posted:The one and only time I've been in an uber, co-worker and I were chatting with the driver, and I mentioned that it was pretty dope she was driving a manual car and I was all "Automatics are for COMMUNISTS"!! epic!!!!
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May 27, 2019 16:58
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StormDrain posted:I honestly thought people would guess it was a Chrysler product. A non Wrangler jeep, which is believe it was a Patriot. It was the cleanest car in poor mechanical shape I've ever ridden in. When my Saturn started slipping downhill mechanically so did the cleanliness. Should have guessed with the hand cranks. The CEL threw me as it's common with the German cars I've driven. Had a few rental Dodges lately. They were all top of the line, so biggest engine, leather everywhere, but like the basics in technology. My sis' several year old Town and Country has more tech than a new Dodge Caravan SRT. Weird how they push you into Chryslers for the tech, but are willing to really push the price on Dodges anyway.
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May 27, 2019 17:10
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sneakyfrog posted:who rides shotgun in a rideshare? I do, because I get car sick. I always ask before I get in though.
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Sagebrush posted:epic!!!! And her name was Albert Einstein.
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Sagebrush posted:epic!!!!
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May 27, 2019 21:01
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Colostomy Bag posted:A guy that doesn't have a phobia talking with strangers combined with greater legroom. No problems sitting in the back of my mates Statesman. I'm 6'4 or so and can strech out more than some cars from passenger well.
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May 28, 2019 08:59
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TotalLossBrain posted:
It's more of a misery loves company thing than something won.
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May 29, 2019 04:11
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I always think of economy Japanese cars when I think of royalty.
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May 29, 2019 04:14
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holy hell... terrible car stuff aside, it's amazing how many people with a complete lack of hand/eye coordination become tattoo "artists". They couldn't even trace their pasted together logo, clip art, and cheesy font combo without it looking like it was done by someone suffering from the early stages of Parkinsons. winter.mute fucked around with this message at 04:30 on May 29, 2019 |
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May 29, 2019 04:23
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Economy tattoos for economy cars.
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May 29, 2019 08:29
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holy poo poo lmao
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May 30, 2019 00:18
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TotalLossBrain posted:
I'm ashamed at how long it took me to get this.
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May 30, 2019 00:25
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wesleywillis posted:The one and only time I've been in an uber, co-worker and I were chatting with the driver, and I mentioned that it was pretty dope she was driving a manual car and I was all "Automatics are for COMMUNISTS"!! I've only ubered 3 or 4 times in my entire life and 2 of them were manuals. One was a Dodge Dart and the most recent one was a GTI. The GTI dude and I bonded rapidly after I told him that when I test drove a TDI golf I killed the poo poo out of it the first three starts because the clutch was so different than what I was used to and asked him if the GTI clutches were also weird because the only newerish GTI I'd driven had the DSG. Saying automatics are for commies doesn't seem to make any sense though. Are you trying to use communist as a generic pejorative? If anything, manuals are for communists.
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bird with big dick posted:I'm ashamed at how long it took me to get this. I don't "get" anything. I see a stupid looking car with "mini on" printed above the headlight eyelashes and the minion seatcovers. I see stupid poo poo like this all the time, what is there to get?
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