[nabs-l] Google car takes to the streets

[Carly Mihalakis]

Well then, Sophie and Robert william, when you guys find enough money 
to buy one of these, you can gimme a ride or, because of all this 
trashtalking you wouldn't even do that?
Have a beautiful Sunday, guys! Car, Kaiti Shelton wrote:
>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
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