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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The point is not all communities are close enough to distribution centers or UPS regional operations or command enough volume for overnight deliveries, much less same day.
An autonomous vehicle fleet could do drive-by drops to some locations and other deliveries to Amazon lockers or Post Offices by leaving as soon as a reasonable load is available, following custom paths, instead of regular departures and routes. Maybe following one way cross-country, multi-stop "missions" or circuits no human driver would stand for.
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Kind of like UPS etc. although I am not sure what you mean by what no human would stand for in the way of a delivery route. I can see a flying vehicle going over swamps and water etc. But a ground based one? I am sure that they could, but would delivery to say a militant survivalist camp or to somewhere out in the alligator infested bayou be commercially viable enough to make it worthwhile on a regular basis? Obviously you think it would, but I am just not seeing it.
Helen