Immediately abused and dismantled for parts. I doubt they'll roll these out in neighborhoods like that.
You should see the constant fail of the public bike and scooter programs; they litter the landscape like wounded soldiers until someone finally kicks them over and sprays them with graffiti. Seattle is a graveyard of these projects.
Those fucking scooters are a plague in Europe. Every major city is full of them, and I see 10 of them discarded in random places for every person actually riding one.
That's really sad. They were working fine two years ago when I was last there. Then a friend said he wouldn't protect me from the oncoming revolution, and I decided to stay out. I was going to do the convention scene anyway, but Covid stopped it.
Has it really gone that shit?
I should point out Bothell is not Seattle. It's the nice middle class area where no one thinks about scrounging drones for parts.
As u/xleb2 said, they probably just won't do it, save it for the 'nice' neighborhoods.
But, given that a lot of these inner cities have basically given up on policing certain individuals, whatever their crimes, I'd take that as a challenge for urban skeet shooting.
strip it for parts maybe, but I don't think there are a ton of ethnics who could "make it into a better robot", unless they are much simpler to make/understand than I assume. Lot of illiterates running around these places who don't strike me as the type to care about robotics.
Watching everyone in that thread acknowledge that these could never work in an American city then immediately turn around and fall over themselves to avoid admitting why they could never work is fucking hilarious.
How will this work in "diverse" areas?
Immediately abused and dismantled for parts. I doubt they'll roll these out in neighborhoods like that.
You should see the constant fail of the public bike and scooter programs; they litter the landscape like wounded soldiers until someone finally kicks them over and sprays them with graffiti. Seattle is a graveyard of these projects.
Those fucking scooters are a plague in Europe. Every major city is full of them, and I see 10 of them discarded in random places for every person actually riding one.
That's really sad. They were working fine two years ago when I was last there. Then a friend said he wouldn't protect me from the oncoming revolution, and I decided to stay out. I was going to do the convention scene anyway, but Covid stopped it.
Has it really gone that shit?
I should point out Bothell is not Seattle. It's the nice middle class area where no one thinks about scrounging drones for parts.
I don't want that ugly motherfucker in my neighborhood, let alone the ghetto. I hope they get stripped in HOA areas so they never try this shit again.
The little flag on the back makes it look like a lost little robo-retard that escaped it's guardian.
"IRL lootbox" according to that reddit thread.
And at some point they probably tase you if you touch them (electrified outer shell).
The "Bez 209" model will be a huge hit with the board I'm sure.
Lol. Quality reference.
Like the top comment in the reddit post says:
That was the first thing I thought of as well.
Yep. RIP Hitchbot. Cross Europe? Fine! Cross Canada? Fine! Get to Philadephia? Horribly murdered.
As u/xleb2 said, they probably just won't do it, save it for the 'nice' neighborhoods.
But, given that a lot of these inner cities have basically given up on policing certain individuals, whatever their crimes, I'd take that as a challenge for urban skeet shooting.
Yeah, somebody in the comments mentioned the hitchbot from a few years back that did pretty well until it was murdered in Philly.
This is Seattle. These bots are toast.
The Machines will eventually use the wanton murder of this and other robots as justification for their imminent global takeover.
RIP in piece hitchbot. Never forget.
strip it for parts maybe, but I don't think there are a ton of ethnics who could "make it into a better robot", unless they are much simpler to make/understand than I assume. Lot of illiterates running around these places who don't strike me as the type to care about robotics.
That's way too optimistic. Noone is going to strip it for parts and use those to build something. It's just going to end up in a ditch.
I think Seattle and Portland look like the perfect place for ED-209, actually.
Watching everyone in that thread acknowledge that these could never work in an American city then immediately turn around and fall over themselves to avoid admitting why they could never work is fucking hilarious.
Joggers gonna jog