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Those Silicon Valley geniuses have done it again!

Next week- "it's like the subway, but with AI!"

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Just waiting for them to reinvent light rail

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How about Uber Feet, where you pay to walk somewhere?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, my nearest grocery store is a 1h15m walk or an 8 minute drive.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You joke but how about exoskeletal legs that you rent? Like those scooter rentals

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They got bought by Uber tmobile though, so the prices jumped

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Uber Rickshaw

Because only poors should walk

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They invented FSD in the sixties and it makes a handy little loop through downtown Detroit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

And now we're inventing the shittiest "rail line" between Ann Arbor and Detroit on 94. All the hassle and expense of rail travel, with none of the efficiency!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never heard of Hyperloop eh?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They'll market it as moving at light speed too.

****heads.