Way more than cheaper rides.
* App to summon
* Automatic driver mapping to pickup
* Predictable arrival for pickup
* Predictable arrival for drop off
* No BS routing and you knew the cost before pickup/dropoff.

Back in the day I called for cabs ahead of time and had them fail to show up 25% of the time. I've never lived in a dangerous area, so that wasn't it. They just were not reliable or predictable. Uber saw a huge opening for a service and they took it. They also saw a huge opportunity for destroying the existing market solution in an anti-competitive and illegal way and took that, too - banking on the notion that government would not act fast enough to stop them. And they were right.

I think they learned not to respond that way 250 years ago.

And because cars are a certain size. Making it half the size for just one person would be nearly as expensive and would be worse for taxi'ing 2 people (which are still a reasonable number of fares).

These are all half measures. The FCC should just pass a rule that every call must carry its 10 digit account id as the phone number. End. Of. Story. Even international calls should have to carry their customer's account number, or if it is a business, one of THAT BUSINESSES' phone numbers. That way, you can "Know your caller". If they land a call that doesn't have the right info, the originating carrier should be fined, then have a timeout on placing calls, and let them explain it to their carriers.

The $100k is going to be a cash grab for government, business will make it transferable. Remember, government isnt try to stop an activity, just maximize its own take for it to just barely make sense.

Yeah, thats exactly how it works.

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I created my twitter account when the service was practically new and only used it a handful of times - so I might not be the target audience. Even so, I miss the original idea of it.

Oh for fucks sake just turn on FSD Supervised then change the tune.

The federal government gives moneys to local police to install them.

If they pay for it they can do whatever they want with it. If they buy the Mona Lisa and decide destroying it is what they want to do that is their decision. No one else cares enough to get the book first or outbid them for it.

They wont vote for or against Flock. Thats not how it works. Flock will be in an NDAA or Omnibus bill. It will be "We have to pay our veterans", or "This bill will keep the government funded". Then every one of these assholes who want cover will say "We dont like the Flock stuff in the bill, but we have to pass it for reasons". No one gets blamed, and Americans hate "other congressmen, not my guy".

Flock is something each and every one of them will believe is good for the country because "terrorists" or "anti-semites". In reality, it's just so when they decide they dont like what you say, they will find a reason to come get you. America is dead, long live America.

Install Ubuntu, it has a GUI package manager and work very well, if you buy a system that is designed to run it. I gave my nephew one and he uses codex now to make apps in Linux. It teaches him what to do. Kids have enormously plastic minds and can learn a new system very quickly. Just ask anyone who ever went from an Xbox to a play station or even from one gaming hud to another. They will be fine

From what I understand the first sale doctrine invalidates such licensing terms, but I could be wrong. I am not full read up on the material or if contracts have figure out a way to bypass that.

Yeah. This is what Americans voted for. More expensive solar panels.

Oh, no. I have it on good authority that computer vision is about to exceed human performance.

Wait - what year is it, again? :-p