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What would be potential startups in this space? Besides the obvious "fleet of driverless cars that drive people places." It will be revolutionary, and Google i

• zrail 14y ago
  Curbside delivery. Build a truck that has a bunch of different little cubbies. Load it up and send it around. App on the customer's phone beeps when the truck arrives and gives them a locker number and an unlock code.
• InclinedPlane 14y ago
  "Parkless" cars. You own it, it drops you off and picks you up at work, and spends the rest of the time at your house. Personal local delivery. Your car drives to a lot next to a grocery/department/whatever store. A grocery clerk walks to your car, presses a button on a smartphone app, and loads up your car with your online purchases then your car drives itself home. Same as above except your car/truck is rented out for overnight local deliveries / short-distance freight hauling while you sleep. Use of sensor streams from driverless cars for surveillance, mapping, etc. Installing high-speed municipal wireless data or cellular infrastructure on fleets of roving cars without the necessity of securing right-of-way for fixed structures or ground data lines (e.g. using microwave or open air laser comms for high-bandwidth links to aerial drone stations which then eventually link down to base stations or just form a completely wireless mesh across an entire country/continent).