2195: Dockless Roombas

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Dockless Roombas

Title text: The company started out exploiting a loophole in the law banning scooters. The city was mad at first, but then they noticed how much they were saving on street cleaning.

Explanation

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A Roomba is a small automated (robotic) vacuum cleaner designed to clean a room or other bounded area by repeatedly and automatically going over the floor, vacuuming, until it has made multiple passes, and either runs low on power or is turned off. The "intelligence" of various models can vary from relatively random operation to models that generate a general map of the area and contents and attempt to be deliberate in passing over all reachable areas. A Roomba generally includes a power "dock", which it can find and automatically connect with when it gets low on power, so it can recharge and perhaps automatically begin another round of cleaning.

A Dockless Scooter is a system of sharing personal scooters, whereby they can be left anywhere for someone else to use, rather than returned to a particular home location.

Transcript

[Cueball and Megan walk in from the right and sees two roombas on the ground in front of them.]

Cueball: Are those... Roombas?

Megan: Yeah, the dockless rental apps have really taken off.

[Cueball stops and turns to look at Megan, who has also stopped, as Beret Guy comes walking in from the left with his smart phone in his hand.]

Cueball: What?

[As Cueball and Megan turns to look at Beret Guy, he stops between the two roombas, looking down on the one between him and the other two. He taps his smart phone and the roomba makes a sound.]

Smart phone: Tap tap

Roomba: Unlock

[Beret Guy is squatting down on the roomba as it drives him away, while Cueball and Megan turns to stare after him,]

Roomba: Whirrrr

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Discussion

I don't know about you, but I would totally rent a Roomba to do my vacuuming for me. QuickMolasses (talk) 14:42, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

" A Roomba's dirt canister is quite small and needs to be emptied when it fills up. This would happen quite quickly if it were operated on streets and sidewalks." -- Well, just have the Roomba connect to Narnia rather than a canister. 108.162.238.83 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Now I'm imagining a wardrobe with a garbage chute attached to it being dragged behind a Roomba, and Black Hat mounting a spray bottle on said Roomba and using it on Aslan. Herobrine (talk) 12:40, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

Can anyone who has a roomba confirm whether it's even possible to stand on one without it breaking? Apart from not being strong enough to move you anywhere I assume it's structural integrity can't support a fully grown adult.Bischoff (talk) 10:42, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

I rather doubt they would be able to carry a human, but maybe they could carry a cat (and believe me, that's possible...) --IByte (talk) 22:42, 30 August 2019 (UTC)

Just wondering what happened to the Friday comic. Strips used to appear at a sensible time but have been drifting later, but it is nearly midnight UTC and no show. Mind you I was confused a to why Randall was advertising a trip to London in July and why he had so many trips to England exactly a month apart. 162.158.34.64 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Randall has a new book coming out in 4 days, and he's going on a book tour to more than a dozen cities, I'd expect him to be busy. Also it's only around 7:30 where Randall lives, and Friday's comic is already out on xkcd.com, it's just that DgbrtBOT hasn't uploaded the page to the wiki yet. Herobrine (talk) 23:45, 30 August 2019 (UTC)