I'd love to cycle more outdoors, but I'm always wary of the risks. How cool would it be if you could hire a waymo as a "team car" and have it follow you around? It could also carry extra equipment...and act as a ride home in case of emergencies.

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onoesworkacct 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

that's a lot of energy consumption.

For a more ecologically conscious alternative, I recommend carrying a handful of sparkplugs.

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wffurr 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you ride conservatively (use lights at night, use good judgement at intersections) and stay away from buses and trucks, the exercise vastly outweighs any risk.

	▲	loeg 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Personally I avoid riding at night entirely, and use at least a tail light during the day.

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sonofhans 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I get your idea, but it does rather sound like asking a 4,000lb death robot to follow you around closely and hope that it doesn’t screw up …

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amarant 10 hours ago | parent [-]

To turn the colourful phrasing against you, I too would like a death robot to protect me from all the murder monkeys having a death race around me if I was out biking on the road/death race track.

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vel0city 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Wouldn't the better solution be to prevent those murder monkeys from doing the death races around where people would want to cycle? Some kind of grade-separated trail? More regulations on those murder monkey death races?

Crazy thought, I know.

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amarant 9 hours ago | parent [-]

The grade separated trail sounds great in theory, but in practice it's surprisingly ineffective for some unknown reason. In Sweden we have a ton of those and for some reason bikers insist on participating in the death race with the other murder monkeys. Which is annoying because it can really slow the race down! But I guess once they have a good alternative, at least their death race participation is voluntary, and so I guess they're fair game like the rest of us

	▲	toast0 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Seperate is not equal. Grade separated bike routes are often not the best routes. We don't even fully grade separate rail based murder machines from tire based murder machines.

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webdood90 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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	▲	oblio 10 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they have exhausted all other possibilities." As an outsider and on a more serious note, there's just too much money in cars and car-centric infrastructure. The whole country would need to be rebuilt. It can be done, they've rebuilt the country a few times, but again, as a outsider, it feels like hope has been dying out in the US. They're giving up because they've given up.
	▲	UltraSane 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Autonomous cars will solve the problem much faster than redesigning roads or changing driving habits will.

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2postsperday 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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