• Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    You really are unnecessarily aggressive and still incorrect. While USUALLY there is a driver and USUALLY the vehicle is privately owned, that does not have to be the case. I have no “dream scenario,” I just pointed out that you incorrectly compared the person’s comment about ridesharing and taxis to a bus, which is not at all similar.

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      20 days ago

      How is it not comparable?

      It’s a vehicle on four wheels, on public roads.
      It transports multiple people from A to B.
      The people might not be acquaintances.

      One is “hail and hope it arrives within reasonable time”, the other has a set timetable and can carry more people more comfortably.

      It is absolutely comparable, you are incorrect.

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        20 days ago

        Who said anything about riding with randos? Regardless, I guess by your definition waymo is busses, lyft/uber are busses, all rideshares are busses, taxis are busses, hell, everything is busses. Why do we have all these words when we can just say busses! Lmao.

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          20 days ago

          My dude, do you not know what fucking ride-sharing is?

          A has a car and shares it with B.

          A might not be in acquaintance with B.

          There HAS to be A and B for it to have “ride-sharing capabilities”.

          Or else it’s a self-driving van.

          Lyft/ubers are illegal taxis. There’s a driver and a passanger. Going from point a or b. No stops, no randos.

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              20 days ago

              Are trolling? You have to be trolling.

              "A ridesharing company, ride-hailing service, (the vehicles are called app-taxis or e-taxis) is a company that, via websites and mobile apps, matches passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire that, unlike taxis, cannot legally be hailed from the street. "

              Let me fucking chew it up for you, little peanut:

              • So a driver and a passanger that don’t know each other
              • Going from point X to point Y, no stops.

              ^ This is a taxi.

              Okay, are you still with me? Let’s hope.

              Now the robo-van does not have a driver. But has “Ride-sharing capabilities” according to the original person I’m replying.

              You either are sharing YOUR ride with randos, like a fucking bus, or other randos are sharing their ride with other randos, like a fucking bus.

              It’s not a fucking ‘private pod’, it has 14 seats. Otherwise it wouldn’t be ride-fucking-sharing!

              IF you’re sitting alone in it it’s just a big fucking stupid taxi.

              It’s a shit bus, that looks like a retro-futuristic toaster to milk money from idiot techbros.