10 years from now: I just watched my grandma chew our some poor nurse because the hospital’s wheelchair won’t shut the hell up.
OK but pedal wheelchairs are actually useful tools for folks with either limited mobility or in rehab from accidents/surgery.
And they make ones that are fucking fun, too
I think the comparison still stands. It’s a narrow use case.
“Yeah, we shouldn’t care about LGBT+ folk especially Trans athletes there’s only like one of those” that’s you dude
“A narrow use case” is not the same as “no use case.”
To quote a well known microblog meme:
No b*tch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about.
Not all wheelchairs need pedals, like not all apps need AI.
They probably have chain guards. OPs looks… dangerous.
surely they wouldn’t be able to reach the pedals from where the seat is located? It’s not designed like a bike
Difficult for Wheelchair user, end of the way for pedal Wheelchair users
That don’t make sense, with limited mobility it is more difficult to move a Wheelchair with pedals than walking, maybe with a cane or walker.
There’s all kinds of injuries or fatigue symptoms that may mean you can move your legs and sit, but you cannot stand…
On a flat surface, bikes expend less energy to use than walking. This actually makes total sense. Biking is also a kinder motion on joins than walking which is actually quite hard on knees.
walking is hard on knees because we walk on asphalt and concrete, which are not what our body is made for. our body is made for the soft dirt grounds of forests and fields
Not the same a bike in the plane street than a wheelchair on the sidewalk with borders on the beginning and end, often problematic for people in wheelchairs in cities with too much obstacles for them.
thankfully it doesn’t need to make sense to you to be useful. they exist and are used by people with limited mobility
depends on the mobility limitation
at least ride this would make fun
They should add bicycle pedals to a walker.
Way to be ableist.
Kinda more like:
Hey look naked ableism
You have some options. Be a mature adult, apologize, recognize that stuff like this is real mobility assistive and rehab tech, or go the lemmy mod and admin route, double down and throw a hissy fit. Up to you.
I don’t get it.
Why are people who use email or something unable to operate a chatbot?
In a pedal wheelchair? Come on
The meme is “giving a chatbot to an email user is like giving pedals to a paraplegic”
Why are email users comparable to paraplegics. What are they unable to do that everyone else can?
In a pedal wheelchair? Come on
This feels like clarifying with mud.
you’re misunderstanding the analogy. this is a fundamental problem with analogies.
‘fundamental’ would mean it applies to good analogies, not just wrong ones
it does. an analogy is not 1:1 and if it was it wouldn’t be an analogy, it would just be the thing.
That’s getting a bit too vague for me.
How is giving people a chatbot like giving paraplegics pedals? Nobody has explained it yet.
I understand that adding an chatbot to an product don’t make it more practical, when you find even a Toaster with AI. Also an design made with ChatGPT insteatof research can also result in an absurd crap, halucinating not only in chats.
