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> Take delivery drones for example, what problems do they trying to solve? If we look at it from money perspective -- delivery jobs are among lowest paying. And
by hsn915 5y ago
> Take delivery drones for example, what problems do they trying to solve? If we look at it from money perspective -- delivery jobs are among lowest paying. And that's the segment that all those autonomous drones/trucks are trying to take now. So basically billions of dollars going into research to solve non-existing problem.
Drone allow deliveries to be much faster and more "parallel". In the future, instead of having 100 delivery people, you can have 10000 drones. Drones don't tire. One drone can probably do a 100 delivery runs in the time it takes a human to do 5.
- GrigoriyMikh 5y agoDo we really have delivery "throughput" problem? Any data confirming that? And if there's a problem, why we need high tech solution for that? Bring more people/increase birth rate.
- kevingadd 5y agoYeah, at least in the US when we see stories about delivery services failing to keep up, it's usually services that have been cutting pay, increasing hours, etc and are understaffed as a result.
- Daneel_ 5y agoWe certainly do here in Australia. I ordered an item from a store less than 10km from my house and it's taken over two weeks to arrive.
- hsn915 5y agoWhat do you mean by a throughput problem? I suppose before cars were invented, you would argue that cars are useless because we already have horses and they have been getting us from A to B just fine for centuries, and there's no "data" to prove that there's any "throughput" or "speed" problem. Maybe things take 5 days to deliver now. Maybe that's not a problem per se, but imagine if things arrive within an hour of ordering them. > Bring more people/increase birth rate. I'm all for increasing the birth rate, but not for the purpose of creating more "workers" to slave their time and physical labor away for "the economy".