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In addition to the healthcare workers, we're going to look back a few years from now and recognize all the delivery drivers, package handlers, and grocery store
by meritt 7y ago
In addition to the healthcare workers, we're going to look back a few years from now and recognize all the delivery drivers, package handlers, and grocery store cashiers as the "First Responders" of this crisis.
- malandrew 7y agoIdeally we automate as many of those jobs as possible so that as few people as possible are put in harms way and contribute to ongoing spread of the virus.
- ch4s3 7y agoYou imagine that in the span of weeks to months that picking oddly shaped items from bins, packing them into boxes of varying sizes, then driving on multiple legs can be meaningfully automated? I'm just not seeing it.
- djohnston 7y agoNot for this crisis, to be sure, but w/in OP's timeframe of a few years? They're throwing enough money at this exact problem that it doesn't seem out of left field