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"standardize that location. Simple as that." Again that’s nor simple neither cost effective by any mean. Your are dealing with a lot of externalities here. Lo
by Twisell 9y ago
"standardize that location. Simple as that."
Again that’s nor simple neither cost effective by any mean. Your are dealing with a lot of externalities here.
Logistics is a chain, you can’t replace a link and expect that the others will magically adapt to the new element. It’s like an API you can’t expect users to be happy if you break all compatibility for the sake of progress. And again for API only software have to be adapted which is far easier than hardware.
I don’t doubt than sometimes in the future when all the caveheats will have been addressed and that some standard will have been defined yes you will have automated trucks. But it’s not simple and I don’t see them comming before at least 15 years and in any case after passengers automated cars.
- tjoff 9y agoIf the economics don't work out, don't do it. This won't be an over night transformation but rather decades. You start where the circumstances are beneficial. Perhaps the first to adopt this would be postal services and large stores with many outlets throughout a country with their own trucks that do the same route every day. They have control over each destination and it would most likely be easier work alongside existing logistics and everything is kept within the same company.
- Twisell 9y agoOn that we agree I was just pointing out that it’s not as simple as you initialy thought. And sorry if I’ve being boring it’s a deformation from Geography my first scholarship. Geographers tends to focus on systemic interaction rather than on individual components.