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Are food deliveries in densely populated US cities really done using cars? Why? All e-bikes/scooters here (city of >5 mil in Aus).
by wizofaus 4y ago
Are food deliveries in densely populated US cities really done using cars? Why? All e-bikes/scooters here (city of >5 mil in Aus).
- ska 4y ago> densely populated US cities Many big US cities really aren't densely populated. e,g, including 2 of the 4 largest: LA & Houston.
- wizofaus 4y agoWhich is why I specified that. Outside of the inner 15km radius big cities in Australia aren't at all densely populated either, and cars probably are used for delivery there. But 90% of the deliveries I observe are in that radius!
- jackson1442 4y agoIn Seattle, all of my DoorDash deliveries were people using cars.
- wizofaus 4y agoHaving spent a few days in downtown seattle that surprises me, I can't think why a delivery driver would choose to use a car over something smaller.
- lief79 4y agoI'd guess rain. There's only a few dry summer months.
- wizofaus 4y agoSeattle ain't the only place in the world it rains a fair bit! And I gather it's rarely particularly heavy rain.
- jackson1442 4y agoMight be because I was specifically ordering from places that _weren't_ downtown. Like many others on the thread, I don't particularly care for the delivery services so I really only use them to grab things where it's infeasible for me to go get them myself. With public transit, getting food downtown was easy so I was ordering from places out to the east.
- alistairSH 4y agoThey probably already have a car.
- wizofaus 4y agoI'm sure plenty of food delivery drivers have cars here too, but the cost/ parking/traffic issues involved in using one for such deliveries in a higher density metropolis make them kind of impractical...