[ExI] jeff's ride

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
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Zoox redesigned its robotaxis for more comfort and less stink The new Zoox robotaxi design takes lessons from half a million rides.
And from human nature.

<https://www.fastcompany.com/91564135/zoox-redesigned-robotaxis>
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>...In the more than 2.5 million miles Zoox robotaxis have driven in San Francisco and Las Vegas since last September, the Amazon-owned driverless vehicle service has learned a lot about operating on chaotic city streets. The company has also learned a lot about the chaos people can bring inside their vehicles.
As a result of this and many other stinky, sticky, and disgusting realities of having robots drive the general public around a city, the new Zoox robotaxi design is heavy on moisture- and odor-resistant materials. “We wanted to be able to wipe clean any issue very quickly rather than replace parts,” Stoffel says.
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>...We discussed these problems many years ago, when self-driving cars were first suggested!  :) BillK

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Ja.  If one is drunk or stoned, a robotaxi is far less likely to rob or rape than its human counterpart.  Result: proles smoke, barf, urinate and copulate in the vehicle on the way home (not necessarily in that order.)  Even if it isn't clear there is anything besmirching the seat, the proles would remember what they themselves perpetrated in the last taxi ride.  Revolting!

It would be easy enough to design these rigs to have plastic seats or sealed inflatable seats which can be cleaned with a power washer.  It would be a very clear economic advantage to be able to clean them that way: fully automated, forced air dry, ready to roll again.  They would likely cost less than a hotel room if some amorous couple wanted to use it for that purpose.  As I write this, I wonder why it is that it is always me.  I am the one who posts about that particular robotaxi function, never anyone else.  Perhaps there is something wrong with me.  Or perhaps I just evolved this way, in which case, it ain't my fault, man, evolutionary psychology made me like this.

That whole frontnorf symmetry is just cool however.  I wish I had thought of it, rather than that sleazy Bezos who stole my idea before I thought of it.

spike