[apendleton]

Moving people and things is way bigger than just vehicles on public roads, too. There are giant earth-movers in pit mines, metro trains, and other fairly car-like examples. There are also less obvious examples like the increasing automation of Amazon warehouses: where once pickers moved amongst the shelves in a warehouse, now pickers are stationary and robots move entire banks of shelves around, entirely automated, and the same amount of picking and packing is done with fewer pickers.

These are all facets of the same problem, and it's everywhere.