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by TJ-14 3289 days ago
Everything that you buy online, in a Walmart, or is otherwise manufactured a city away from where it's sold?

Trucking costs are built into most products. My grocery store sells apples from California. If the cost of trucking them to me goes down, those apples will decrease in cost and they will potentially sell more apples.

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Shipping probably cost less than the plastic container.

Automation of driving is all about making people with lots of capital richer. Efficiency is just the dream -- this stuff will dramatically increase costs of shipping as capacity is constrained.