Is this what happens with scooters and lime bikes etc? Because it always strikes me that they’re easy targets for cannibalism yet nobody seems to do it.
replyThey do. Tons of them are stolen or destroyed regularly. The company just keeps buying new ones.
replyIt was common for people to vandalize and throw them in bodies of water for a while before people got used to the idea. I still occasionally see some repurposed from time to time
replySurely the robot will have the beta crime fighting package installed.
replyPay a little extra for the M134 Minigun attachment and you’re good to go.
replyHaving expensive high tech robots picking up litter while there is an ongoing social crisis like homelessness sounds pretty dystopian.
replyHave you seen San Francisco right now?
replyI haven’t been to the city in 12 years. What is it like right now?
replyLike every downtown in the US. In short: not good.
replyI don’t want to say you guys overstate things, but literally every downtown in the US? Might be time to move. I was regularly visiting San Francisco in the late 2010s when the tech bro community was really ginning this story up. Was it an ugly clash of both the promise and the failure of US economics? Yeah. Was their shit on the streets? Also yeah. Did I ever feel unsafe? Not really. Anecdata but I remain skeptical because of these Helen Lovejoy-level overstatements.
reply