Drunk Driving in Los Angeles

[ercarta]

So Los Angeles has a leg up on us over here on the east coast where drunk driving is concerned. I read they have not one but two companies offering a chauffeuring service. What's unique about it is that they arrive in a collapsible scooter($2000) and drive you home in your car, talk about a niche. The service runs anywhere from 40-55 dollars and they arrive in twenty minutes. They even carry a party kit w/munchies and an air sickness bag. Their motto is "You party, we drive." How basic & brilliant. Now, why didn't we think of that first?

[Creature]

Very entreprenurial - I love it!

There's certainly a market here for ferrying drunk people home from Manhattan or Hoboken. A friend told me it cost $30 for him to take a cab home from NYC. And if you could think of a way to at least keep all the seriously drunk people corralled in one car of the PATH train, I think everyone on the train would pay you $1.

[@@di]

So Los Angeles has a leg up on us over here on the east coast where drunk driving is concerned. I read they have not one but two companies offering a chauffeuring service. What's unique about it is that they arrive in a collapsible scooter($2000) and drive you home in your car, talk about a niche. The service runs anywhere from 40-55 dollars and they arrive in twenty minutes. They even carry a party kit w/munchies and an air sickness bag. Their motto is "You party, we drive." How basic & brilliant. Now, why didn't we think of that first?

This service was first started in London over 8 years ago and is very successfull.
Obviously the British party harder!

[ercarta]

I did notice a band around on of the guys arms in the picture. Could have been some kind of British thing. Well it took eight years to find it's way into the US.

[Stinky]

Strange how long things take to move across the pond. Check printers never did make it here (at a supermarket in England it's common to hand a blank check (cheque) to the cashier who sticks it through a machine that prints date, payee, amount and then it's handed back to you to sign - fast and easy).

[@@di]

Strange how long things take to move across the pond. Check printers never did make it here (at a supermarket in England it's common to hand a blank check (cheque) to the cashier who sticks it through a machine that prints date, payee, amount and then it's handed back to you to sign - fast and easy).

I call it technological chauviasm.
The same reason why NASA spent $1.2 million dollars on inventing a pen to work in zero gravity and the Russians used a pencil.
Also why India conducted an all electronic election this year [400 million votes were counted in 6 hours], without any serious problems.
Just FYI, the e-voting machines in India are independent, non-networked Linux based machines.