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Uber, Lyft worsen city traffic, studies show: report
Despite promises of reducing traffic congestion, ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft are doing the opposite as their apps pluck passengers off public transportation and put pedestrians in cars, the Associated Press reported.
According to an AP review of research, studies show the ride-hailing apps are directly competing with mass transit and the increased number of taxis and Uber and Lyft cars on the road contribute to slower traffic. A New York-based study cited "vacant vehicles occupied only by drivers waiting for their next trip request," as a contributing factor for high-volume traffic in Manhattan's central business district, the AP reported.
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, it is against the law to open a soda bottle without
the supervision of a licensed engineer.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @08:45PM (5 children)
I doubt that either the drivers or the drivees would go for that. People would just fall off and die. Or they would be more likely to die in any crash.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 27 2018, @08:50PM
What, you think they should put their cell phone away and hold on with both hands?!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 27 2018, @11:10PM (3 children)
I can see the future and it's bright: selfdriving tuktuks.
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday February 28 2018, @01:37AM (2 children)
I can see the future and it's bright: rent-a-horse.
With proper GPS-driven automated blinders and reins, a horse will safely get you anywhere, lane-splitting faster than Manhattan or 405 traffic.
Collision-avoidance lane-keeping auto-braking neural network has long been thoroughly debugged, and tips are cheap.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Wednesday February 28 2018, @01:57AM
Interesting, but the maintenance is high - PETA and their ilk will impose skyrocketing costs.
Improvement suggestion: use humans for propulsion - aka rickshaws - especially in at-will employment states (are there any other, still anachronistic, ones?). Will be a bit slower, but you can pay them peanuts and no organization can legally object (we'll take care of it, one-off cost, by lobbying and electoral campaign contributions).
That's how we'll get efficient allocation of resources and create jobs and, in the same time, stay green and progressive!!
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 28 2018, @02:19PM
NYC did use horses back in the day, but then they had to employ about 10,000 street sweepers to try and keep the city from getting buried in the tons of manure that produced.
Washington DC delenda est.