I figured we could all use a laugh. :D

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    9 hours ago

    There were a lot of initial economic studies done as electric cars started taking off trying to figure out how to pay for road infrastructure as the USA funded a lot of its infrastructure on gas taxes and that revenue stream was going to go away.

    One of those studies found that, if you billed out the infrastructure costs per mile and included all other non-human costs of driving a car around, it was cheaper to have an empty car drive around than to pay for parking in certain urban areas.

    Sounds like Waymo figured this out.

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    9 hours ago

    And yet, all I hear about day in and day out is how auto-piloted trucks are going to take everyone’s jobs.

    Okay, VC’s.

    Prove it. Seems apparent to me that what’s going to take truckers’ jobs is the fact that American companies can no longer afford to fuel the trucks themselves, thanks to Donald.

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    12 hours ago

    waymos are free.

    Oh man the little neon child statue works. If you get a bunch of those you could probably rustle some waymos into some parking lot and brand them with bologna.