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Text: Amazon's electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.
Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck
Response text from high t alpha shemale @gluetaster: that's not a cargo bike man that's a loopholemobile
no AC and a singular water bottle. no protection for the driver either if someone decides to run up and drive off with it. Who thought this was a great idea?
saves amazon money, no need for expensive car insurance, or maintaing an actual ev/ice car.
Someone who will never have to use it, or likely even interact with someone who does
having worked at an amazon facility before, that is exactly how it goes, even the software is so stupid
better software than one of subsidiaries, wf. they are so behind the times, 3 different apps for employees,
That's an Amazon driver. The water bottle is not for drinking.
theres no bucket for the other hole.
But how you gonna piss with everything all open like that?
Very carefully
Maybe you can go in the back.
I always wonder how many unwashed piss hands have touched the packages I get delivered.
Possibly quite a bit less than you’d think, as I see many delivery people and those in fulfillment centers wearing work gloves of some kind. That said, there are always outliers.
You ever hear the stories about the TSA people who wear their rubber gloves into the bathroom to go piss and then don’t wash their hands before they go back out to rifle through you bag for a tube of toothpaste?
I’m kind of a germaphobe so I think about these things.
Can’t say I have, but given the average person’s propensity for laziness, I’m thoroughly unsurprised. Knew a medic that served aboard an aircraft carrier, and they regaled me with horror stories about how those things are nuclear-powered floating disease factories.
Mail carriers die from heat stroke in similarly spartan vehicles every year here in the southwest, no question in my mind the same will happen with this.
I actually think it's a good idea. If this is too dangerous then by definition the same is true for all cyclists. So there is no need to address those specifically instead of improving safety for all kinds of bikes.
This has giant blind spots. My bike has zero blind spots.