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by yoster
4754 days ago
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Pizza deliveries cannot wait 5 minutes or so. You are now talking out of your ass. That is one of the worst ideas I have ever heard and pizza companies will never do this. They can just hire people who are down on their luck to drive for them for chump change. You ever see a pizza delivery person take their time? Hell fucking no. You honestly fucking think they will spend thousands of dollars on a vehicle to equip with all this automated bullshit? The costs would be astronomical, so much fucking wasted R&D, and to top it off, this is not some Back to the Future bullshit. This is the dumbest shit I have read on HN in a long fucking time.... |
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Before they move on, existing pizza delivery drivers delivering to an apartment have to: park the car, walk to the door, get buzzed in, wait for an elevator or climb the stairs, walk down the hall to find the right apartment, knock on the door, wait for someone to come to the door, drop off the pizza, walk back to the elevator/stairs, go back down to the ground floor, go back out to the street, get back in the car. In short, current pizza deliveries today often spend more than 5 minutes at each site just making a normal delivery. So yes, an automated truck that just stops at the curb at street level and expects the customer to pick up their pizza can afford to wait several minutes and still be ahead on time compared to the old system.
> You honestly fucking think they will spend thousands of dollars on a vehicle to equip with all this automated bullshit? The costs would be astronomical
Automated driverless delivery vehicles will ultimately cost less than vehicles that have drivers. You don't have to waste space on the driver area so the vehicle can be smaller and lighter or carry more cargo per unit size. They can skimp on safety equipment too - no need for seat belts and airbags or even an internal dash display. Fewer parts = more reliable. There's also the difficulty of hiring reliable people who can work exactly the shifts you need and the cost of paying them. It might be cheaper to hire people now but that won't always be the case.
So I do expect future companies that need to deliver stuff will want to buy or rent the use of a standard off-the-shelf driverless vehicle, possibly adding standardized accessories like a selective-opening side door. I don't expect they will make one themselves. They'll buy the finished version from some other company that specializes in making them. That way the R&D expense is spread across millions of customers and thousands of firms, not just one.
>This is the dumbest shit I have read on HN in a long fucking time....
You seem very angry. Is there something else upsetting you that you want to talk about?