• Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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    22 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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      22 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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        22 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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            22 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.