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If the new infrastructure cost is less than the old manual labor cost, you can bank on the infrastructure being built. Truckers holding out on "only humans can

If the new infrastructure cost is less than the old manual labor cost, you can bank on the infrastructure being built. Truckers holding out on "only humans can handle last mile" are in for a surprise when we start rebuilding the last miles.

thaeli 5y ago
Don't underestimate the option of "if the cost of making the old infrastructure hostile to other users is even less"..
r_klancer 5y ago
Well, the tide has been turning in many cities towards building more human-scale infrastructure by improving walkability and protected lanes for bikees/scooters etc. Delivery bots have a severe risk of wrecking the "flow" of sidewalks and bike lanes by being slow or just behaving robotically instead of like a person. (Side comment/why I'm interested: I finally have bandwidth for civid engagement and I decided I'd like to work on helping my already cycling-friendly city enact policies to encourage food delivery services to use bike delivery, as part of its upcoming bike network plan.)
duxup 5y ago
I want one of those pneumatic tubes that banks have installed that runs from the local Chipotle to my house ... I'd even pay for it. I think even random citizens would be happy to adjust to it.
- randycupertino 5y ago
  Stanford has a pneumatic tube system for lab samples and it's several miles long and you can tour it! https://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2010summer/article4.html https://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2010summer/article4.... I would abuse the FUCK out of a burrito delivery pneumatic tube system to my house and would become orca fat.
  - duxup 5y ago
    There was a good "how its made" out there that showed a company that sells them for hospitals and etc. It was cool to see how the various intersections and etc worked.
- soared 5y ago
  I cannot seem to find the right words to google, but you’d enjoy reading about (Chicago maybe?) a city that had a long rotating pipe running under the city. Instead of using electricity, or maybe prior to electricity, factories could attach a strap to the pipe to power machines.
- jaclaz 5y ago
  JFYI: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.h...
- kortex 5y ago
  You mean like the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel? https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...

thaeli 5y ago

Don't underestimate the option of "if the cost of making the old infrastructure hostile to other users is even less"..

r_klancer 5y ago

Well, the tide has been turning in many cities towards building more human-scale infrastructure by improving walkability and protected lanes for bikees/scooters etc. Delivery bots have a severe risk of wrecking the "flow" of sidewalks and bike lanes by being slow or just behaving robotically instead of like a person. (Side comment/why I'm interested: I finally have bandwidth for civid engagement and I decided I'd like to work on helping my already cycling-friendly city enact policies to encourage food delivery services to use bike delivery, as part of its upcoming bike network plan.)

duxup 5y ago

I want one of those pneumatic tubes that banks have installed that runs from the local Chipotle to my house ... I'd even pay for it. I think even random citizens would be happy to adjust to it.

randycupertino 5y ago
Stanford has a pneumatic tube system for lab samples and it's several miles long and you can tour it! https://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2010summer/article4.html https://sm.stanford.edu/archive/stanmed/2010summer/article4.... I would abuse the FUCK out of a burrito delivery pneumatic tube system to my house and would become orca fat.
- duxup 5y ago
  There was a good "how its made" out there that showed a company that sells them for hospitals and etc. It was cool to see how the various intersections and etc worked.
soared 5y ago
I cannot seem to find the right words to google, but you’d enjoy reading about (Chicago maybe?) a city that had a long rotating pipe running under the city. Instead of using electricity, or maybe prior to electricity, factories could attach a strap to the pipe to power machines.
jaclaz 5y ago
JFYI: http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.htm http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/pneumess/pneumess.h...
kortex 5y ago
You mean like the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel? https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...