Self Driving Robots: The SOLUTION to Last-Mile Delivery? 

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Yes, Waymo is the way to go! 😊

Girls do

They attach a drone to it and it gets delivered to your balcony. This becomes more and more common because as time goes on people start getting their fancy, sugar filled, Starbucks coffee delivered the same way. Therefore apartments and homes will have drone landing areas. This is an educated guess btw. I'm not for or against this but it's coming. Human beings are clever and are able to adapt. There is no stopping it.

NOT!!

It is just a matter of time. This is just the beginning.

The one that Infineon and VW are willing to try in Palmela, Portugal.

What kind of question is that

Would be interesting.. We think they are going to test it too

Have you seen the electric ebike pedal vans? More efficient than autonomous vans for getting packages to customers, with much improved pollution reduction. Asking package recipients to change is impractical because many have circumstances that prevent it...

There are like this in US for some time already. In Russia for the last 3 years lots of food and post delivery robots work in the biggest cities. It's something quite common in Russia. Even a coffee-serving female bot.

Where may I check that data?

Thank you!

Delivery driver is a miserable job tho

In Estonia low-paid labor is already in high-demand. There aren't a lot of people who want to do these jobs. That's also the reason why there are so many Estonian companies working on these kinds of problems, and inventing different kinds of robots, instead of for example new types of transportation. As economically it's cheaper than paying for humans. We have already seen this happen in Estonian farming industry, where there is only around 1 worker for 200 hectares, as more than that, becomes uneconomical to have with the wages they want. Currently though all of the tractors and combines with unmanned technology still require to have a human onboard, even if they can do other things at the same time, like plan new routes, do logistics or economics. It would be nice if the Estonian state would finally give permission to have completely unmanned combines, but with the current political climate it's unlikely to happen any time soon.

@@MaticTheProto That's why it typically pays better.

@@tankart3645 There'd be more farmers if there was less synthetic chemical farming. Low tech robots are okay, but AI is dangerous.

yah but that adds cost .

We can understand why you're concerned. Maybe in time there will be some manner of regulation in place, where self-driving robots only end up on shift in case an employee is unwell? Or perhaps in areas where it's particularly congested? AI without regulation that protects the rights of workers certainly won't work.

@@DWREVlol dont be so naive

Only when ur sick 😂 this shit is here to replace all of us

Which would certainly help safeguard a few jobs. Although, there's no stopping progress... It merely becomes a matter of the sort of progress one wants.

There's still a lot of people needed to design, manufacture, maintain and operate this kind of infrastructure. Is it more energy-efficient than having people providing delivery in (electric-aided) bicycles?

No. Speeds aren’t the problem, cars are

Enjoy your pod, your 15 minute citie, wage cage and eat your bugs - cars only for the elites. Never need to go out again aye?

Maybe, It's a good first stept to improve velocity too soon.. ;-)

They anyways want to reduce the speeds in Tallinn down to 30km/ h max. I personally also would prefer this, but Tallinn city council is filled with car-minded populists, so it's unlikely to happen all over the city. (In this case I mean only city roads and not expressways connecting one city part to another.) Also the top speed of these vehicles is 50 km/h.

Cities are more efficient with 30 km/h top speeds than 50 km/h.

jobs are transforming not disappearing 🥰

@@poljakov13 oh really. So tell me then, where are these people who are being replaced going? Specifically this function. Do you want to tell me a delivery driver will now become a technician? And you seem to forget that where 100 jobs disappear, not all 100 are absorbed into new functions as overall there is now a diminished need for staff due to the new operational requirements