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Elon Musk shows off two-seat robotaxi
(arstechnica.com)
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Who would win. A cyberpunk looking “$30k” robotaxi or one speed bump/pot hole
In the future, there are no potholes or imperfections of any kind. The ground and buildings are smooth, shiny, and constantly maintained to perfection somehow. Everything looks like a starship.
Camera pans down to the lower levels. Dark illuminated streets are visible, illuminated by sparse sunlight that manages to find cracks in the starship like road above. Flickering mismatched neon signs offer work, with long lines of broken humans waiting to find any job not taken over by AI and Optimus robots.
Of course, they will all be made of perfectly smooth glass because they will be Solar FREAKING roadways! Everyone knows this, duhh.
Everything's chrome in the future!
As long as it's not a water poodle...
Yup, it's a concept car "robovan." And I think it looks gross.
I think the concept is cool, and it would probably make a good replacement for buses. In my area, we have on-demand vans run by the org that runs the buses, and they basically take people to/from any transit stop in the area. A robovan would replace those, and potentially replace buses as well, and they could run more frequently because you don't need to have drivers.
So I absolutely like the idea, but I still think it looks dumb. Why screens instead of windows? Why does it look like it's from a video game?
On the sides, and they're like 1/3 of the total length of the vehicle, and on the ceiling. At least from the bit that I saw in the presentation. Buses today have much better visibility.
Nah, I think it's because it fits the art direction of the game. Cyberpunk has a certain feel, and GTA has another.
The robovan and the cybertruck don't match anything in the real world, or anything that came before. So it sticks out like an eyesore IMO.
But yeah, beauty is subjective, and I guess we'll see what it actually looks like if it ever hits the market.