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'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots (www.bbc.com)
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[–] SMillerNL@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

A lot of sidewalks in major cities don't have room for these. Especially if you account for traffic, light, and power poles, street signs, bus and trolley stops, subway and El entrances, sidewalk trees, garbage, trash and recycling bins, sidewalk grates, cellar entries, cracked sidewalks, etc, etc, etc.

That’s pretty awful because it seems to me they take about the same space as a wheelchair.