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I liked how this piece tied all the trendy emerging tech into one short narrative. You could play Techcrunch bingo: driverless cars, drones, voice commands, blo
by scribu 9y ago
I liked how this piece tied all the trendy emerging tech into one short narrative. You could play Techcrunch bingo: driverless cars, drones, voice commands, blockchain etc.
But I couldn’t buy the part about a drone delivering food in 6 minutes to a vehicle that’s travelling between cities.
At first I figured the food would be prepared in the closest town or city. Assuming that there could be distances of tens or even hundreads of miles between adjacent localities, drones would have to cover at least 10 miles every minute (or 600 mph).
But instead of traditional restaurants, you could have driverless food trucks everywhere. Presumably, given enough density and clever routing algorithms, you could significantly cut down on the drone travel distance.
Edit: If the mobile hotel room in the story was only travelling between the airport and a nearby city, that would make it more plausible, but also less useful.