Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck

• nivenkos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s great though - that’s how you get amazing services and technological advancement.

  I wish we had that. In Europe you’re just stuck paying 50 euros for a taxi in major cities (who block the roads, etc. to maintain their monopolies).

  Meanwhile in the USA you guys have VR headsets, bioluminescent houseplants and self-driving cars (not to mention the $100k+ salaries!), it’s incredible.

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  • LesserAbe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol I appreciate your enthusiasm for the USA but grass is always greener.

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    • Patches@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bruh in the US of A the grass is greener because it’s made of polypropylene and spray painted green. Just don’t smell it, or look too hard.

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most of us are in poverty, I dont know when but we’re in another gilded age and just like the last was underneath the gold is rusty iron.

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  • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s $40 for an Uber in Columbus or Cleveland as well. There isn’t a monopoly on taxis creating that price, thats just how much it actually costs to rent a car for cross city travel.

    If you want a no regulations/free market at the helm, you want to move to India. They have all the rules you love.

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  • JungleJim@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bioluminescent house plants are cool but as an American I can tell you right now that my luxury bones hurt.

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    • nivenkos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can tell you right now that my luxury bones hurt.

      That’s the same in Europe though, dentistry isn’t covered on public insurance in the UK, Spain, Sweden, etc.

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      • JungleJim@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True, but your savings on non-luxury bones helps with the fees associated with luxury ones, I’m sure. I can’t do anything for my bones with a $30 glowing petunia.

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  • redfox@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I appreciate/understand your envy. I’m not sure why everyone disagrees so much unless they have also lived under similar constraints.

    Unless sarcasm.

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  • HappyRedditRefugee@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We have something like that here too: MOIA in Hamburg.

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