[nabs-l] Google car takes to the streets

[Kaiti Shelton]

I don't see it as self-serving either... in my experience with buses I
have to agree with Sophie here.  Plus, some parts of town that I need
to go either aren't served by buses, or take a really long time to get
to which sometimes involves going in the opposite way of the
destination for a while and then circling back because of Dayton's bus
system.  (It's organized by buses going north-south and east-west, but
sometimes when you're at a stop the time of the bus won't tell you if
the bus is going north or south, or east or west so you have to roll
with it.  I'd much rather just get into a car and drive than boomerang
around the city just to get to one place, and then do it again
returning to school.  And because of this, and the fact that it the
bus system isn't exactly equivalent to a car, I don't consider it
self-serving either.  I have no problem in supporting it and other
programs of public transit for people who can't drive a car, which
more often are people who are low income, have a suspended license, or
who are inner-city, or elderly than blind, but if I and other blind
people can afford a car and want one I don't see anything self-serving
in that, it's just doing what is most efficient.  I actually think not
taking advantage of this opportunity on the basis that the less than
efficient public transit systems work fine and that other people can
use the money or whatever that would go into buying this car would be
like saying you'd pass up going to college even though you could
because other people can be served by your tuition money, and the high
school diploma would serve you just fine.  It's more efficient, so why
not do it?

Sophie, I too see it more as an investment in independence.  :)

On 4/14/13, Robert William Kingett <kingettr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Im buying this damn car the first chance I get. I’d rather be self
> serving and frivolous and drive to some place within 20 minutes instead
> of sitting on the bus for three hours, or more, depending on if the
> driver didn't call my stop and I’d be riding extra long. Here in
> chicagothat isn't a problem but I used to live in Tallahassee FL where
> there was no automated system to tell you where you were. So yes, I’d
> much rather be self serving and save up. Besides, as I have said before
> in a previous message, this technology is driving along the streets of
> Nevada. I'm so excited that I'm even grinning and daydreaming about
> driving along side of a bus, and happy that I'm frivolous enough to pay
> for a self serving device that will allowfor me to get to the office
> quicker, or to an interview on time, thus allowing me to have greater
> chances to pay my taxes so you other non self serving blind people can
> take the bus. I think it's a neat little circle of irony, don't you
> think? LOL!
>
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Kaiti