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You are right, trucks and also train's are certainly and easier problem to fix. However it's about market size. Automate a train or a truck and you save on per

• dragonwriter 9y ago
  > Automate a train or a truck and you save on persons salary. Automate personal transport and your market is 6 billion people. It's the other way around; automste personal transport, and your market is all the trips taken by people Automate freight, and your market is all the trips taken by goods, raw and finished. The latter is a lot more trips. Even if you just restrict it to the ones taken by ground transportation. OTOH, Uber clearly wants to piggyback last-mile delivery of goods on its personal transport service, and that's the part of goods transport where the labor cost is probably the highest proportion, because one person carries very little compare to the long-haul routes.