> Maybe autonomous containers could also be capable of transferring cargo to smaller autonomous delivery cars, then we'd have a full routing delivery network,

> Maybe autonomous containers could also be capable of transferring cargo to smaller autonomous delivery cars, then we'd have a full routing delivery network, that could deliver any package from a point of source to a point of destination for a low fee. If it's fully automated them it'll need security baked-in by design. And I mean security. Because someone will start thinking in terms of bombs in boxes with detonators controlled by something like an RPi with a GPS receiver. An inadequately secured automatic cargo delivery network is an amazing terrorist enabler (just as long as your hypothetical terrorists include a couple of tame hackers in their number). Right now, Amazon will let me send anyone (you included, if I have your address) a box of live worms, or crickets or even cockroaches. Some gag, if they're labelled as a gift and you open the box unwarily.) But it has to be something they've already accepted as stock in their fulfilment centers. A fulfilment system with no restrictions ... brr! (I'm not making it up about the roaches: https://www.amazon.com/Dubia-Roaches-Feeding-Reptiles-Medium/dp/B00I15GKT6/ https://www.amazon.com/Dubia-Roaches-Feeding-Reptiles-Medium... )