3 ms·
> Did your trash get taken from the curb? Software. Simply planning the route in advance with path finding or something more? Garbage collection was around and
by jimmaswell 8y ago
> Did your trash get taken from the curb? Software.
Simply planning the route in advance with path finding or something more? Garbage collection was around and not very different before software was prevalent.
- EADGBE 8y agoI pay for my trash online. They provide bins. There's two systems right there.
- commandlinefan 8y agoBut it took hundreds of people hours of mind-numbing planning sessions to do it back then. And they were humans, they did screw it up every once in a while.
- jimmaswell 8y agoMaybe I've underestimsted it, but "good enough" route planning didn't sound that hard - just looking at a map of customers, dividing into regions with roughly the same amount of customers, and tracing reasonable-looking paths through them.
- emiliobumachar 8y agoImagine yourself tracing a set of paths that covered every street in a large metropolis, obeyed traffic orientation in every street, and were readable by others. No further Requirements. As many or as few paths as you'd like, no worries about efficiency, sure you can go through the same streets many times if it helps. But needs to cover every street, obey orientation, and be readable by others. Does not sound easy, does it? Now, let's add a few more Requirements...
- friday99 8y agoDo you have any source of people spending hours planning garbage pick-up routes and how that has changed with software?