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HomerJ
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PostPosted: 04-12-2012 02:57 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


This is pretty cool. Think about how much nicer people would be in general without getting in a bad mood from the morning commute stress before their day has even really begun. Haha I swear, some people carry that shit attitude around all day.
You could even have a beer and watch the game :up:

scared? wrote:
it would be totally awesome if u could just send ur car to pick up ppl and drive them to your location on its own...

That's a cool idea but I wonder how it would verify the intended passenger is the one picked up. I guess it would have to be someone with access to another set of keys, like a spouse or other family member. Which would kinda limit your idea...but it's better than having some homeless dude get in your car and all the sudden you have serial-killer-drifter-man on the way to your house instead of your buddy who's waiting at the airport.

GONNAFISTYA wrote:
They already have them with public bicycles that you can rent...just drop it off in a bike rack at your destination.
Doing it with cars shouldn't be too alien to most people, but the space requirements for housing all those public cars will be a problem....unless you're Mitt Romney and can just have the elevator bring your car down.

Bicycles aren't potential deadly weapons...at least not without some imagination. Some idiot gets on a bicycle when he hasn't ridden in 30 years and crashes and scrapes his knee - who cares....some idiot gets behind the wheel of a vehicle when he hasn't driven in 30 years and crashes into an innocent person - big deal.
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PostPosted: 04-12-2012 03:05 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Or how about just not letting someone who hasn't renewed their driver's license in 30 years drive one?
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PostPosted: 04-12-2012 03:08 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


GONNAFISTYA wrote:
Or how about just not letting someone who hasn't renewed their driver's license in 30 years not drive one?

maybe I'm kinda confused how your idea is a new one. If you're just talking about rental car services...we have those. Unless you rent from some backwoods local dealership, most places let you drop the vehicle off at the closest dealership or center to your destination.

And the 30 years thing wasn't really my point, it was just a poor example. My point is that you can't compare bicycles to vehicles because there are obviously many more liability concerns when it comes to automobiles.
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PostPosted: 04-12-2012 03:39 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I get your point about the differences to public safety between a bike and a car, but car rental services aren't the "pick up/drop off" type of system we're discussing.

I don't think I intimated that there weren't going to be minimal requirements to use the system, but that the actual public acceptance of such systems now being everywhere.

And yeah....Montreal has the same ugly bikes as everyone else.
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PostPosted: 04-15-2012 09:48 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:

lol wut

that's over 2 1/2 times the traffic fatality rate of the UK.


Yeah, but with 5+ times the population.
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PostPosted: 04-15-2012 09:56 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


i can tell basic maths isn't your strong point, randolph. UK has 2.5k fatal traffic accidents p.a. out of a population of 60m. US has ~33k out of 300m

33k / 5 = ~6.5k, and 6.5k is roughly 2 1/2 times 2.5k (2.6x if you want to be pedantic). if the US had the same fatality rate as UK it would see only 12.5k fatalities

or, you could have just understood the word 'rate' :tard:
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PostPosted: 04-15-2012 10:44 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Simple oversight on my part.
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PostPosted: 04-15-2012 10:45 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Scourge wrote:
Simple oversight on my part.

Fine but you don't have to get angry about it...
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PostPosted: 04-15-2012 03:28 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Randy got schooled.



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I knew you'd be along shortly to add your 1/4 cent worth. But that's ok. I know you don't have anything better to do.
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Randy sure knows a lot.



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PostPosted: 04-15-2012 05:12 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I knew you'd be back.
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PostPosted: 04-15-2012 05:41 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I knew you'd be mad.



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Scourge wrote:
I knew you'd be back.


knew u...



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