Is there a technical reason they can't happen? We have self-driving delivery for groceries and other things in some areas of the UK now and they're pretty good, I don't see why that can't be extended to fast food delivery as well. The only barrier seems to be cost, you get a lot more money per delivery through groceries.
The technical reason is that it will always be cheaper to pay someone $5/hr to give you a vehicle and labor than it is to buy and maintain automated delivery vehicles. I would drive 100+ miles/day in my personal vehicle essentially for free.
The only way they'd be fully accepted would be if the government subsidized them or something.
Yep, cool how the government will pay to take jobs away from the people who pay taxes. Almost like they have class interests that aren't aligned with the workers and we're being duped.
Forces those drivers to go be drivers for someone else. Like Uber. For less money of course.
WITH THAT SAID I don't actually think any of the places I can get groceries from with this service actually had any delivery beforehand, so technically it only added a service, at least in my area. No jobs taken by it at least in my specific area.
That makes sense, it would be nonsense to automate a job that's essentially slave labor. It's probably some company that's getting "innovation" funding or something and is able to give out these delivery vehicles for below cost.
Either government funding or some venture capitalist or organization that knows more automated delivery vehicles on the road will serve as free propaganda. Especially with delivery drivers being super radicalized lately.
Is there a technical reason they can't happen? We have self-driving delivery for groceries and other things in some areas of the UK now and they're pretty good, I don't see why that can't be extended to fast food delivery as well. The only barrier seems to be cost, you get a lot more money per delivery through groceries.
The technical reason is that it will always be cheaper to pay someone $5/hr to give you a vehicle and labor than it is to buy and maintain automated delivery vehicles. I would drive 100+ miles/day in my personal vehicle essentially for free.
The only way they'd be fully accepted would be if the government subsidized them or something.
Fair. That is exactly how they started here.
Yep, cool how the government will pay to take jobs away from the people who pay taxes. Almost like they have class interests that aren't aligned with the workers and we're being duped.
Forces those drivers to go be drivers for someone else. Like Uber. For less money of course.
WITH THAT SAID I don't actually think any of the places I can get groceries from with this service actually had any delivery beforehand, so technically it only added a service, at least in my area. No jobs taken by it at least in my specific area.
That makes sense, it would be nonsense to automate a job that's essentially slave labor. It's probably some company that's getting "innovation" funding or something and is able to give out these delivery vehicles for below cost.
Either government funding or some venture capitalist or organization that knows more automated delivery vehicles on the road will serve as free propaganda. Especially with delivery drivers being super radicalized lately.
The people who maintain self-driving delivery vehicles have very different expectations from their employer than the average restaurant worker.
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