Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate

• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Perhaps I should have been clearer.

  I can’t see it taking off, anywhere really, but here particularly as our roads are very different to American roads so I don’t think they’ll have much success outside of maybe a few limited areas.

  I also don’t think we will ever get to a point of self driving being very popular. As you would need to get humans to stop driving really as a mix wouldn’t be very safe.

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  • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    People said the same thing about cars taking over for horses.

    People said the same thing about computers.

    People said the same thing about the internet.

    People said the same thing about cell phones.

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’m not sure people said those things.

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      • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I remember them saying the latter three myself…

        So yes they did.

        timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…/92539357.cms

        The CEO of Microsoft laughed at Apple when they released the iPhone saying people wouldn’t use it because it was too expensive and didn’t have a keyboard.

        newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva… 1985 article from Newsweek called “Why the Web Won’t Be Nirvana”

        These are just two easily locatable links, I personally remember people saying these things wouldn’t catch on.

        I also remember people saying 3D TVs would catch on, and they clearly didn’t.

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