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Old 12-02-2013, 09:36 PM   #78
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe View Post
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.

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How many humans willingly drive 24x7, with only refueling pitstops, for weeks on end? Robot vehicles could do it for months.

Instead of round-tripping the way humans with families and home bases must (even long distance truckers) a robot car can complete a delivery run and move onwards to a refueling/recharging station at the nearest distribution center and go on a further run from there. A vehicle could over weeks go from Washington state to Florida in a series of daisy-chained delivery runs, with minimal empty travel time, maximizing vehicle utilization and productivity.

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