That's the downside to others. The downside to owning an e-bike, especially a cargo bike, is that they're very attractive to steal. Thieves will go to great lengths to grab an e-bike, especially expensive ones like the cargo variants.
It’s really a shame and prevents me from using my e-bike instead of my car even in some situations when the bike would otherwise be the perfect mode of transportation.
How are the rental ones (and scooters). I do not have a smart phone (and live in a rural area). I go into Austin now and then for a day or two and am reluctant to use sisters e-bike because of the hassle of taking care of it (when going inside a building). Rentals can just be left on the sidewalk.
> The future for self driving cars are closed roads where only driverless cars are allowed.
Given that human-driven cars, trucks, cyclists are already on the roads and will be for quite a while to come, and pedestrians already cross it, you would have to build a whole new road network, with crossing points for human-driven vehicles/pedestrian traffic. Which is simply infeasible, both in terms of money, but also simply space, especially in built-up areas where the space is already fully utilised.
> The future for self driving cars are closed roads where only driverless cars are allowed.
This is the present in Honolulu, as of last year: a fleet of self driving cars, operating on a closed road where only driverless cars are allowed, transports over 3000 people per day. The service is called "Skyline".
I looked it up and it seems to just be a typical driverless train, more or less the same as is found in airports for changing terminals, except that this is longer than those. It might be a good service, but not quite as exciting as your description.
Well, yes: it was a tongue-in-cheek way to observe that requiring closed roads for self-driving vehicles would render the whole exercise pointless. We already have a more efficient solution for that problem, with no need for any exciting new technology!
On a larger scale: Copenhagen and Vancouver both have fully-automated metro systems (i.e. driverless systems). Presumably there are many other cities with such systems around the world, and they probably all work nicely.
Fine for getting around different areas of the cities, but it's not going to drive you wherever you want to go though.
that's the main reason I stuck with sublimetext for soooo long. It's so fast and it can handle insanely huge files plus it can do column operations on text on insanely huge files. VS Code does seem to have been optimized since the first few years though and its not hardware related.
diablo III difficulty is adjustable. you can make it as hard as you like during leveling and at the endgame.
I played diablo 2 a lot when I was a kid, and really, the only hard parts were bullshit mechanics like damage immunities and iron maiden. it also had no real endgame, only mindless baalruns. ubers were only doable by a few paladin builds (with reasonable gear/effort).
But I don't see how that can be changed, having them ride on the street along with cars is not a good solution.