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This may sound dumb, but I honestly don't know how to answer that, lol. The first answer that comes to mind is "for passengers to sit in," but that just seems too obvious. Is there more to the question?

Ahh I think I get it now. That might be feasible in a densely populated city. Most of the truck guys I've known live in suburban or rural areas. The few who lived in the city center drove much smaller pickup trucks like Toyota Tacomas, Ford Rangers, etc.

I'm very confident that they wouldn't. However, I suppose it's possible that I've never seen transit that could be so good that people would choose it over their own vehicles. What would that look like?

I suppose a few of them might do it if there's free coffee on board (or beer, but that would be chaos lol) and it ran on VERY convenient schedules.

People in the US place a LOT of value in convenience, so the public transit system would have to offer something that outweighs that. Do you know of any examples?

Yeah, good point. Owners of Samsung "smart" refrigerators started seeing ads on them recently.

I'm sure there was some sort of legal terms that users had to agree to to enable that, but it still feels like a scam. Some amount of those fridge owners would not have bought the fridge if they knew there would be ads on it at any point in time.

If nobody buys them, then they'll exit the market. American companies value profit.

Not the same seating capacity though. Also, it's hard to tell, but it seems like there's a difference in bed widths?

Edit: Could someone help me understand the downvotes? The seating capacity is just an objective fact, so was it the speculative difference in bed width? Or something else? (Sometimes I have difficulty understanding people)

I've known plenty of people in southern US states who drive trucks for purposes that don't require trucks. They'll never choose public transit over their trucks, no matter how good it is.

...Though, realistically, that's not exclusively a truck issue. If one can just step outside and get into their own car and be immediately en route to their destination, on their own schedule/convenience, it'll be hard to convince them to choose a less convenient mode of transportation.

I wish companies would at least offer a "no data collecting/selling" price option. Like, how much would they make from selling my data? Just give me the option to pay that extra amount so I can buy a vacuum without thinking about how it's spying on me.

Ugh. Everything in this thread is totally feasible and probably reasonably accurate.

I miss the old days when I could love tech, and got excited about new tech. It has gotten so sleazy.

Well yeah, it's a fridge with a spacious screen and an Internet connection in the 2020s. Of course they'd capitalize on all that advertising real-estate. And of course they'd wait until after people have had them for a while. They're unsurprisingly shameless.

I'd be curious to know what kind of data it's collecting to optimize those ads.

My phone recently offered to summarize a text message for me. I'm talking about SMS, the messaging system that already has a character limit.

Also, when I last checked the weather in my area, there was an AI summary. It was an entire sentence or two, and offered zero additional details over what was already visually indicated by the raincloud icon and the number representing the temperature.

I'm looking forward to installing GrapheneOS when their support for my phone stabilizes.

I mean places that don't care about any laws at all. Places that might only be accessible on the dark web, etc. There's terrible stuff out there