Orchestrating a conversion from human fleet to AI-fleet is going to be a serious investment. Developing AI vehicles that are reliably safer than humans by a goo

Orchestrating a conversion from human fleet to AI-fleet is going to be a serious investment. Developing AI vehicles that are reliably safer than humans by a good margin (5-10%) is hard, but so will the work of ripping everything out that has gone into supporting human drivers and adding everything that needs to support AI drivers. Even if the vehicles themselves can be converted in an afternoon and have a switch flipped so you feed it a delivery route and it just works, you still need coordination and communication capabilities that are different from humans. Plus any mechanisms for automatically loading cargo and coordinating the AI vehicles to queue up to be loaded. The AI technology itself represents a serious investment (although I many delivery companies are not doing their own, but really just waiting on someone else), but infrastructure, conversion, and execution are also serious investments. It's really difficult for me to stomach that the profit from an autonomous fleet would be unfairly allocated.