Semi-retired professor Carolyn Marvin became a local celebrity facing down Philadelphia’s growing robot delivery army: ‘It’s my first amendment right to protest’
The road! It’s got 4 wheels and motors. Or we could think about how we’ve designed urban spaces that surrender all space to cars forcing everyone not in a car can get fucked, so maybe take one car lane away and make a new bike/ delivery bot lane.
Well unluckily we don’t have any special exceptions for people with disabilities, so this means I’m forced to double down and say wheelchair users also belong on the road, IF their wheelchair is electrified.
My argument is still that more space should be taken from driving and parking lanes rather than turning pedestrian areas into the dumping ground for anything that’s not a car, overcrowding it.
I’m not sure I see your point, unless you’re assuming college campuses and downtown cores aren’t still heavily car based in the US? I assure you most of them have a road or parking lane to spare near the restaurants that the bots want to pick up from
Honestly, have them share a bus lane, or expand bike lanes into a secondary lane for delivery robots. Make it on the outside though, so there’s a buffer for cyclists.
I already hate sharing a sidewalk with them, I would shit blood if one of these fuckers made me late for a bus transfer because it was doing something stupid in the shared lane.
No!
Where do they belong, then?
The road! It’s got 4 wheels and motors. Or we could think about how we’ve designed urban spaces that surrender all space to cars forcing everyone not in a car can get fucked, so maybe take one car lane away and make a new bike/ delivery bot lane.
I have news for you about some wheelchairs
Well unluckily we don’t have any special exceptions for people with disabilities, so this means I’m forced to double down and say wheelchair users also belong on the road, IF their wheelchair is electrified.
My argument is still that more space should be taken from driving and parking lanes rather than turning pedestrian areas into the dumping ground for anything that’s not a car, overcrowding it.
Except they’re not road fit.
They can’t go at appropriate speeds (IIRC most of these go at best 10mph)
They’re small and low - visibility within city level follow distance is impossible
Overall, everyone’s safer if they stay on the pavement.
Well yeah that’s why they go on bike lanes.
Oh yeah, them moving suddenly into the way of a cyclist will end well.
These things are pretty much exclusively used on college campuses and downtown areas
I’m not sure I see your point, unless you’re assuming college campuses and downtown cores aren’t still heavily car based in the US? I assure you most of them have a road or parking lane to spare near the restaurants that the bots want to pick up from
Honestly, have them share a bus lane, or expand bike lanes into a secondary lane for delivery robots. Make it on the outside though, so there’s a buffer for cyclists.
I already hate sharing a sidewalk with them, I would shit blood if one of these fuckers made me late for a bus transfer because it was doing something stupid in the shared lane.