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I wouldn’t use this day to day, but what I found cool was:
The downside is that if you wanted to get it truly offline, you would need to have the an app installed on both devices ahead of time, if I understood it correctly. (Edit: bolded bits are new)
It did lead to some fun discussion in this thread :)
You don’t actually care about that.
Disabled people are not your fucking pawns
I didn’t intend for it to sound like that, and reading my comment again I see that I should have expanded on it further. I’m hoping my posting history can show where I stand on issues like this.
What I should have said was that delivery services can be helpful for the elderly or those with disabilities, and that legislation on delivery services can help us improve access to those without the harms of these current robots.
For what it’s worth, we don’t have these robots where I am, so I didn’t know how bad it was. In person, I’ve only seen a few that were sitting around our university plaza last fall. I looked online, and it looks like we don’t currently have any here. I will keep what you’ve mentioned in mind when talking about these bots moving forward, especially if our local politicians are going to be deciding on them in the near future.
To expand on where my thinking was coming from, I have read first person accounts from people who can’t leave their homes easily, and also how existing delivery programs are helpful but don’t have the capacity to meet everyone that needs it: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/seniors-grocery-app-delivery-anjel-vancouver-1.4938035
Often with these discussions, automation is brought up as a way to bridge the gaps that current public funding can’t fulfill.
I also recently read about how some cities have a thriving bike/scooter sharing program, while others are suffering from mismanagement, excessive prices, and chaos; and how it came down to whether the programs were started as a public project or if they were led by tech companies. So in my earlier comment, I was tying information to this story and saying that regulated and/or publicly managed delivery options might be a better thing to focus energy on
These bots can be helpful for the elderly or those with disabilities. It’s probably more effective to legislate them at the municipal level.
That’s my bad for writing it poorly. I meant to say that about the premise of not needing internet, since someone who has internet on both devices might have better ways to transfer the files.
Someone would need to plan ahead and install the PWA (or some compatible tool) in order for this to work