Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco
GladiusB@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Waymo’s base is in China Basin. It’s worth noting that the area of the city is rampant with homeless people. I’m talking so many damn RVs that there are shanty villages that catch fire. Problems galore. The police will go out to clean it up and they just move to another are a few blocks away. I can totally see this happening where it is because the area sucks and no one would ever know until it was done and over with.
shasta@lemm.ee 8 months ago
People living in RVs count as homeless?
Dra@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
This question is such a depressing example of Bay-Area inhumanity. God Bless America
Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
I feel secure in asserting that the bay area is not representative of America.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I have driven across the US multiple times, in what way is it not? The bay area is a lot more than San Francisco
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Often the RVs in places like OP is referring to are dilapidated and don’t run, with tarps on them, not connected to water or power. Essentially a small shanty house in a slum so I guess it depends on your definition
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Last I checked, RVs are not permanent or semi permanent structures, nor do they have addresses, so… Yes. It’s living in your car, just a bigger car with amenities
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Which should absolutely NOT be made illegal. Give these people places to actually park their RVs that have facilities to use, instead of pushing more people to end up on the streets.
Someone should be allowed the freedom to live in an RV if they so choose or can’t afford anything else.
Just help give them a decent place to do it.
laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
One hundred percent agreed
GladiusB@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The RVs are usually not drivable. The last time they moved them in front of my old job, none of them ran. They had to tow away more than they drove away. I guess you can argue that doesn’t make them totally homeless, but they are definitely creative.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Homeless doesn’t necessarily mean sleeping under a bridge. You can be crashing at a friend’s place and still be homeless if you don’t have a home of your own to go back to. An illegally parked RV with no mailing address doesn’t count as a home for most purposes.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But how many of those people would consider themselves homeless? RV shit is a total fucking lifestyle for a lot of people.
Misconduct@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not a lifestyle if it’s not by choice. Try finding a job without an address. The people that do it as a “lifestyle” are usually just wealthy turds or social media dweebs larping as happy families on the road despite their kids being obvious miserable
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 8 months ago
When it’s parked on the side of the road, yeah.