4 ms·

I think most people would be perfectly happy to walk to the street and open the car with a code they just received per text if that saved them some money.

by kaybe 11y ago

ekianjo 11y ago
> I think most people would be perfectly happy to walk to the street Then it's a worse service and you might as well to the local post office if that's the case.
- cthalupa 11y ago
  Did you just equate walking to the curb to the same level of inconvenience of having to go to the post office? I'd have to walk nearly as far to get to my car as I would to get to the curb, and then I'd have to drive to the post office, find parking, walk into the post office, wait in line, walk back to my car, drive back, carry the package into my house... "Whelp, having to cook my own food is more inconvenient than having it made for me. At that point I might as well butcher the cow myself!"
- Splines 11y ago
  It depends on the kind of housing and street layout. If you're in suburbia, walking to your street vs walking to your front door is a difference of 20 feet. Also note that for many neighborhoods in the US, picking up the mail is a PITA - there's a collective mail box somewhere in the neighborhood that you need to walk to, usually a several minute walk. Door-to-door mail delivery only exists for houses that are several decades old. If I could get a business to gather my postal mail & packages and park outside my door I would be very happy.
  - ekianjo 11y ago
    The US is actually not very representative of what the whole world looks like out there. In most modern cities you have apartment buildings with several floors and they have separate mailboxes - either common ones or individual ones right at your door. Amazon is a global company and they would need to address the local differences everywhere.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Post offices are much further, you have to wait in lines, not to mention finding a parking spot if you have to drive there, and most importantly, post offices usually work in the day hours. There's little reason for self-driving delivery cars can work 24/7, or at least in a much larger hour span than a post office.

I think most people would be perfectly happy to walk to the street and open the car with a code they just received per text if that saved them some money.

by kaybe 11y ago

I think most people would be perfectly happy to walk to the street and open the car with a code they just received per text if that saved them some money.

ekianjo 11y ago

> I think most people would be perfectly happy to walk to the street Then it's a worse service and you might as well to the local post office if that's the case.

cthalupa 11y ago
Did you just equate walking to the curb to the same level of inconvenience of having to go to the post office? I'd have to walk nearly as far to get to my car as I would to get to the curb, and then I'd have to drive to the post office, find parking, walk into the post office, wait in line, walk back to my car, drive back, carry the package into my house... "Whelp, having to cook my own food is more inconvenient than having it made for me. At that point I might as well butcher the cow myself!"
Splines 11y ago
It depends on the kind of housing and street layout. If you're in suburbia, walking to your street vs walking to your front door is a difference of 20 feet. Also note that for many neighborhoods in the US, picking up the mail is a PITA - there's a collective mail box somewhere in the neighborhood that you need to walk to, usually a several minute walk. Door-to-door mail delivery only exists for houses that are several decades old. If I could get a business to gather my postal mail & packages and park outside my door I would be very happy.
- ekianjo 11y ago
  The US is actually not very representative of what the whole world looks like out there. In most modern cities you have apartment buildings with several floors and they have separate mailboxes - either common ones or individual ones right at your door. Amazon is a global company and they would need to address the local differences everywhere.
TeMPOraL 11y ago
Post offices are much further, you have to wait in lines, not to mention finding a parking spot if you have to drive there, and most importantly, post offices usually work in the day hours. There's little reason for self-driving delivery cars can work 24/7, or at least in a much larger hour span than a post office.