These robots would be a significant improvement over the current electric bike and scooter riders who not only drive recklessly on the roads but also take over the sidewalks. The situation has become lawless in the city, with many delivery drivers disregarding traffic rules entirely, they are a menace to pedestrians and vehicle drivers. I would like the city council to outlaw fast food delivery entirely, accept for the disabled. Young people need to get out more and should pick up their own falafel.
The thing with those guys, as you have rightly pointed out is for all their problems they do get out of the way and filter through traffic (dangerously as you point out)
A single startup with cooler sized robots tottering down the sidewalk is fine. When every single delivery company gets on board then we have a shit load of those things kicking around and in the way. I have the same issues in cities with those scooters that get left all over the place.
If you're referring to Toronto, I couldn't agree more. Couple times a week I find myself confronting an ebike deliverer on the sidewalk and kick him off.
They are frustrating to be sure, especially the moped versions, but are imo still far better to be around then drivers. I'd much rather the bike lanes to be together and throttled ebikes moved to the road, but it wouldn't make near as much a difference as getting people to not run reds or put down their phones.
Don't think Archive links work on Substack or other similar sites like Ed's, and this link stops at the paywall cutoff (ie just the free content portion).
What happens when sales just stop? I can’t imagine what it would look like if it were discontinued after only 2–3 years. Although, it might be smart to start shifting resources away from the Cybertruck and toward developing something else.
Can you imagine having an American emissary sent buy the President of the United States coaching an adversary on how to play his President. Compare this to a few congressional Democrats that said it was every soldiers right to disobey an illegal command and they must follow the law, causing an uproar in Republican ranks and having the President come out and say they should be executed.
JC, what the fuck is going on in America is anyone's guess. Fucking clown show and we are not even a year in.
There is no other nation on earth that has suffered more bombardment than Ukraine. The Russians have shelled Ukraine with over 100 million shells. There were days where they would fire over 30k shells.
People in the West just don't understand what happened and is happening over there. The mines that have been laid will take 100 years to clear. The environmental damage will last centuries.
Gaza could be rebuilt in a couple of years, it will take Ukraine decades.
Regardless of the damage in Ukraine, rebuilding the damage in the Gaza strip will take decades not years. Rebuilding a single city alone will take years to decades, recovering the economy et al will take a lot longer. Outside help can accelerate this but rebuilding & fixing after a war is generally not fast.
I’ve been a member for over 20 years, and it’s just not the same as it used to be. Many items are now more expensive than at other stores, and some of the Kirkland food products have really declined in quality. The produce, in particular, is overpriced and often not fresh — sometimes even half-spoiled.
There’s also less selection and fewer interesting items overall. Something changed after COVID, and it feels like they’ve never fully recovered. They’ll carry an item for years and then suddenly discontinue it with no comparable replacement. Meanwhile, other retailers now match or beat Costco’s prices on many food items.
There are still a few good deals, but I’m not sure it’s worth the membership anymore.
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