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We don't really put a price on environmental and societal damage that "just-in-time" does (thinking of truck drivers living on the highway effectively acting as
by keoqpkk 5y ago
We don't really put a price on environmental and societal damage that "just-in-time" does (thinking of truck drivers living on the highway effectively acting as the warehouse, saving the company to build an actual warehouse).
If we did, more robust models might be financially attractive too.
- yunohn 5y agoI’m quite certain that replacing truck drivers with AI drivers would save the environment more than building even more warehouses.
- bluGill 5y agoWhat is the environmental damage from making something not needed? There is a lot of energy in window glass, refined iron,and all the other parts of a car.
- labawi 5y agoYou could order adequately, then build and sell those cars or whatever you're making, instead of throwing the parts away. But then, you couldn't change models as swiftly, and need to sell a lot of last year's models.