Your pizza is on the way. Don’t expect the driver to make change because there will not be a driver.
Self-Driving Delivery Vehicle
Driverless Pizzas
Please consider Ford Driverless Cars to Deliver Domino’s Pizzas.
Domino’s Pizza and Ford Motor Co. announced Tuesday that they are teaming up to test how consumers will react to having their orders delivered by an autonomous vehicle, as a number of companies explore how to integrate the emerging technology into their business models.
Ford has promised to build a fully driverless car by 2021, while Domino’s hopes to someday replace all of its drivers with driverless cars.
Starting Wednesday, randomly selected customers in Ann Arbor — which is home to an autonomous vehicle research center and testing facility — will receive their pizza order from a Ford Fusion Hybrid Autonomous research vehicle. The car will be manually driven by a Ford engineer and staffed with researchers to gauge customers’ reactions.
Participants will receive text messages as the self-driving vehicle approaches with instructions on how to retrieve their pizza, which can be unlocked from a “heatwave compartment” inside the vehicle using a unique code.
“We’re interested to learn what people think about this type of delivery,” said Russell Weiner, president of Domino’s USA. “The majority of our questions are about the last 50 feet of the delivery experience. For instance, how will customers react to coming outside to get their food?”
“All of our testing research is focused on our goal to someday make deliveries with self-driving vehicles as seamless and customer-friendly as possible,” Weiner added.
As I have stated repeatedly, millions of driving jobs are going to vanish. This is yet another aspect of what’s coming.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
How did people react to getting out of their cars and pumping their own gas?
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very surprised in nj when they learn it’s not allowed
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STILL not allowed
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How will customers react to having an engineer and more than 1 researcher driving this so-called “driverless” car, followed by a gang of reporters snapping photos? I think they’ll roll their eyes and think, “silly marketing event” for a lousy pizza delivery.
How many pizzas did dominos deliver by drone, when that was the hyped event last year? One? Dominos just knows how to get free advertising. My PR girlfriend dreamed up stuff like this all the time.
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I seriously wish you doubters would stop and think.
With every advance, we are one step closer.
No one said either drones or self-driving would happen by 2017
It is staggering the amount of stupidity repeated over and over Ignoring obvious progress every step of the way
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No. It’s all hype. We have people now, purposefully causing accidents for insurance fraud. How will these spoke when the “victim” is guaranteed to be a “fat cat corp”, and there is no driver to testify to the contrary?
The liability alone will keep most driverless cars from actually happening. Unless they are given preferential liability tort reforms.
And are people going to be expected to wait outside and retrieve their pizza from the car? Will they help themselves to the other pizzas in the car? Or will he car only make one delivery at a time?
Just because technology will allow for something, does not make it logistically smart.
Long haul trucks? Maybe. Metro areas? Not in 50 years.
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Long haul truck on the highways by 2022 a near certainty
Yes, near or even through metro areas
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Actually, tort fraud is a reason FOR driverless cars. The driverless cars will come well equipped with sensors and recording devices, and be much, much more capable of recording what actually happened than some human driver. The human will observe only what he is directly looking at, and even then, only some of it. The driverless car will record and upload everything.
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Actually, if the truck companies were worried about mostly about torts, they would put cameras in the truck cabs. Notice they do not, even though cameras and recording device costs are peanuts.
The truck driver is usually held responsible for crashes — unless the plantiff can prove the truck company “coerced” the driver to drive unsafe (pushing over speed limits to meet deadlines, driving too many hours, etc).
Those problems get solved by having shorter haul routes, and optimizing deliveries for late at night (when traffic jams are less).
Litigation is mostly a problem for the drivers, as they get sued and their driving record gets impacted. Bad drivers don’t get hired for the next run.
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Mish – I’ve got to somewhat disagree. I talked to a truck fleet executive and he said we’re more like 20+ years away. He said he’s had long talks about this with senators in his state and before they’ll allow this the entire USA roadway system will have to change. They’ll need to put in an “autonomous” lane for these trucks before allowing them to hit the road. Even then, the trucks will only be able to do specialized runs–not unlike certain trains do around the world. He said Volvo, and the other big truck manufacturers, aren’t even planning for this anytime soon. He said it’s all still just a dream and mostly hype.
We’ve had the ability to fly planes autonomously for years, but there’s still a human sitting in the pilot seat making +100K a year. The same in Japan for trains–they have had the ability for over a decade but still there’s an engineer sitting in the front and back of the train pulling a paycheck.
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You will find out how wrong your truck driver friend is shortly
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Mish – “Platooning” we’ll definitely see soon, but only with freight. Hazmat and flatbed we’re decades away from. I’ve personally been researching this for investment purposes. It’s definitely an interesting topic. http://fleetowner.com/technology/volvo-trucks-tests-highway-three-truck-platooning
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Wow man,what will the stoners do?
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Relax, even today there are pizzas getting delivered by kayak in Houston.
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Did you ever consider being wrong in your predictions of self driving vehicles navigating our streets ?
To some this sounds like a fantasy to scam naive investors.
I.e. mining asteroids for gold, investors wanted. ( sarcasm )
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Why would Mish consider being wrong when he is so obviously right? Do you consider being stupid when you are so obviously smart?
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How are people going to pay for these pizzas? All credit cards in advance, I think, but a fair number of people don’t have credit, or won’t want to do that….
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Wait till your obamacare insurance company sends you a dunning letter because they monitored your credit card, and discovered you ate “too many” pizzas and drank “too many” sugary drinks.
Citizens are nothing but a head of cattle now. Bend over so we can tattoo this bar code ID on your rump.
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How does amazon sell anything without taking cash?
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First they displaced the pizza delivery drivers and I did not speak out –
Because I wasn’t a pizza delivery driver.
Then they displaced the parcel delivery drivers and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a parcel delivery driver.
Then they displaced the regular truck drivers and I did not speak out –
Because I was not a truck driver.
Then they displaced regular drivers with autonomous cars and I did not speak out –
Because I was tired of road rage and driving myself around.
Then human drivers were no longer allowed –
for the robots were in total control of the transportation network.
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Predictions:
Some will be unable to, or simply resent, having to walk out to the vehicle to get the pizza. Businesses will respond to these customers by offering delivery to your door by a person, for an extra fee.
Alternatively, this may provide a niche market for smaller pizza stores to differentiate their product/service with personalized delivery to your door.
Many will not mind walking to the delivery vehicle as it will save them from tipping the driver.
Another example of the creative/destruction of Capitalism and free market competition. Something for everyone.
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keep up… little ramp lowers and robot rolls out to deliver to your door.
…you only pay extra if it’s one of those Japanese sex robots.
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Lol!
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If a delivery vehicle can navigate city traffic to get to your curb, where there will never be any available parking spots, ever; said vehicle can also carry a drone capable of performing the last 100 feet drop off.
Although I have a real hard time imagining navigating city traffic autonomously will somehow be easier than slapping together pizzas autonomously. Meaning, the entire process; from the autonomous pizza bakery on every street corner, to the customer’s dining table, will be done by out-of-traffic drone. All Dominos will have to do, is swap out the water, flour, yeast, cheese and topping containers in the “bakery,” once in a while. And all the customer will do, is keep his phone on him, as he stands next to whatever door or window he wants his pizza dropped off at.
In general, by the time technology has advanced enough to make genuinely autonomous in-traffic delivery vehicles feasible, it has also advanced enough to render most other jobs just as automatable. Assuming a world where everything else is somehow stuck in “today” mode, but cars somehow drive themselves around, seems pretty darned myopic.
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The car is going to be “manually” driven by a Ford engineer? This doesn’t sound like self-driving pizza deliveries are just around the corner. Let me know when they start delivering pizzas by self-driving cars that have no one in the vehicle.
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about 2022
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you’re not allowed to talk to the driver, so it’s almost like driverless delivery. 🙂
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Ordering your pizza from a pizza delivery shop = lazy stupidity. Having the pizza delivered by an autonomous vehicle = lazy stupidity on steroids.
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You WILL NOT SEE THIS HAPPEN Till all other vehicles and landmarks, roads Digitally marked. Weather, bugs and snow in sensors and unpredictables.
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disputed countless times
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This is a stupid concept and it has nothing to do with driverless nonsense or Ford’s limp attempt to be politically correct with a “hybrid”.
If I wanted to get off the sofa and drag my butt outside to get a pizza, I would have just gone to the pizza “store”. The whole point of delivery is the customer doesn’t want to put their shoes on and go outside.
Many people “cheat” (on their diets / healthy eating) with pizza, do they really want their every indulgence tracked to a credit card? How long before the criminals running Obamacare demand access to your credit card so they can track how many pizzas you ate and how many sugary sodas you drank?
This is all too obviously the stupid idea of a big government lib-tard. No one else would care about advertising a “hybrid”, and no one else would assume pizza buyers want to have their eating habits recorded for the insurance company.
And putting on your shoes to go outside because Ford is too lazy to bring the pizza to your door? Does anyone at Dominoes know a thing about pizza customers?
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“assume pizza buyers want to have their eating habits recorded for the insurance company.”
Wouldn’t even cross most peoples minds.
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Apparently, you are the one and only expert on pizza customers. You must own or be in charge of one of the nation’s largest pizza chains. And you are about to get a lot of business from disgruntled Domino’s customers.
Congratulations.
Oh, and thank you in advance for your kind and eloquent words.
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I believe Domino’s franchises are all independently owned, and probably won’t want to insure the risks here…Is Dominos going to indemnify them?
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This will be great until:
1) The first accident and the Trial Lawyers make a fortune.
2) One of these cars is stopped and taken apart, in a few minutes, by street hoods and punks.
3) When Ford/Domino’s refuse to let their cars drive “through the hood” and lose a multi-million dollars racial law suit.
4) When some 10th grader hacks the car and hacks all the Pizzas!
5) When the heaters, in the car, over-heat, catch fire and burn down a house.
etc.
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Last time they didn’t put enough toppings on my pizza, so this time I will let the “imaginary driver” know my displeasure…
Open the magic “heatwave compartment”, take your pizza, leave a package of fireworks in its place, wait for the car to drive to the end of the block, enjoy the fireworks spectacular!!!
In case you think this cannot happen, read one of the (almost) daily stories about Obama supporters calling 9-11 because their meth dealer ripped them off. Or California residents being admitted to the ER because they put suntan lotion in their eyes to watch the eclipse.
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Another option… out comes the pizza, in goes the garbage I don’t want to carry all the way to the dumpster bin. Pray that there are no dirty diapers in the package…
Remember the paper bag (full of dog poo) lit on fire and left on someone’s porch? It probably fits in the heatwave compartment too.
How about “repainting” the car with paint guns? In the color of Pizza Hut (or some other competitor)? Will unemployed pizza delivery drivers really exercise restraint?
The possibilities for customers to take their frustrations out on this car are absolutely endless, even before one considers just stealing the tires, or hacking the entire car.
The technology may or may not be ready (Google’s own driverless R&D folks say “not yet”). But the cultural roadblocks haven’t even been considered
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Similar things can happen with self-driving trucks as well. Unemployed and impoverished former truck drivers can waylay the automated trucks (by shooting out the tires for example), and then just loot the heck out of the truck. Whatever they get, will be sold for cash or bartered for other goods and services.
What is the solution for that? As the Jurassic Park philosopher said: Some people are “so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
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The amount of energy it takes to refute pure bullshit – over and over and over again is quite amazing
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Self-driving cars or trucks can’t be realistically produced for much less than 7-figures with the required level of safety and electromechanical redundancy. Given that Americans can’t even afford their current fleets of cars and infrastructure, just how is there going to be any appetite to replace with self-driving?
If anything, the future of transportation will look like a much less invested highway system, and perhaps more investment in the railways. Intercity passenger rail will be the real big “comeback kid”, not self driving cars or any similar nonsense.
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Total nonsense
Cars will not cost 7 figures
You will find in as soon as Ford makes them
A few years
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No, I know. I know. The driverless trucks will come equipped with pepper spray robots, automated guns, cameras and the like.
Yeah, I realize you are all for driving wages down to zero. But keep in mind what the end game is going to be like. If you think it will be business-as-usual, you got another think coming.
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You make it sound like every person ordering a pizza is a criminal or just hates life in general. You could make just as similar claims toward the current delivery method (ie, someone robs the delivery boy, someone beats up the delivery boy, the delivery boy also delivers drugs, etc.) Yet, somehow pizza delivery has worked for many years.
I would say at the very least 98% of people would just get their pizza and be on their way. Why go to the trouble of all that other stuff?
The people who do those type of things, are going to continue to do those type of things regardless of the situation.
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Yet another possibility… what happens if the pizza customer takes his/her sweet time going outside? Wait for the next commercial, dude! Or wait till I find my crocks, dude!
Does the driverless car wait and wait and wait? Does Dominoes expect customers to stop watching “the big game” to go deliver their own pizza the last 50 feet? What if the cusomer misses the biggest play of the game?
Does the car keep waiting while someone steals the hub-caps? Or does it alienate customers who don’t want to miss a big play?
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I agree Medex Man….Domino’s low income metric is not going to be happy about any of this…
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The George Soros whining committee (wrldtrst and realist) is already upset that their plans to track and monitor (and tax!) pizza / sugar drink purchases is being critiqued. How dare the mud covered masses try to think for themselves! Who authorized that? We the lib-tard elite will decide what is best for everyone else! (but we don’t live by our own laws, see Hilary mistreating classified documents or Seth Rich or any of dozens of other laws she violated).
The fact that they feel compelled to advertise that its a hybrid vehicle? The whole thing is a marketing ploy.
I don’t know of a single delivery service that makes customers go outside to get their purchase. Imagine the advertising copy:
“Order from my store, and I’ll deliver your purchase part-way to your house. Then you have to come out of your house and deliver it the rest of the way yourself”
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Ha… It’s already being tracked and monitored. We already won! So bend over, and unlike your above comment of it being a bar-code ID tattooed to your rump, Soros and I’ve got something better planned for you with the trany in the bathroom waiting to do something else to your rump.
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Careful Medex, or wrldtrst will have Soros turn on the cameras that are hidden in your bathroom walls!
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…and I thought that re-reading “IT” was the most horrific thing I would read today. Medex naked in a bathroom makes little dead kids talking through a drainpipe seem rather charming in comparison.
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IT?? No, you need to read “Who Goes There?”. That is the original novella, written by John W. Campbell under the pseudonym Don A. Stuart and published in 1938. Great story, much better than the idiot movies they made from it.
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Thanks very much, always love book recommendations. I’m pretty sure it’s a different story but it’s now on my reading list.
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“The majority of our questions are about the last 50 feet of the delivery experience. For instance, how will customers react to coming outside to get their food?”
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50 feet, eh?
What if I live on 5th floor and it is raining?
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In reality, airborne drones will deliver pizza long, long before Ford Fusions……
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See I can envision just having a roving kiosk vehicle with a warming oven onboard. You pull up the app and it spills out a menu of what’s in your neighborhood’s vehicle. The vehicle heads to your location as the app is receiving your order. Super prompt but with less variety of items. Custom orders (and their pricing) will be left for live delivery only. This is doable!
The computer will have a database of what type of things your neighbors find tasty and stock the damn thing accordingly.
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In college there was Sanso’s Pizza Wagon. This was a roving pizza delivery truck where the pizza was already made up and ready to go. You could actually flag down the truck if you saw it and get a pizza.
As the night wore on the pizza got cheaper. When the bars closed they did a pretty good business.
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“Order a pizza today from Dominoes. We’ll deliver it part of the way to your house, then you come out and deliver it the rest of the way for us!”
Yeah, the idea just sells itself…
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I’m no sure why everyone is worried about pizza delivery when in 10 years your personal replicator will make your pizza, or steak, or burrito, or earl gray tea for you.
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The same way I have a flying car in mt garage, and the house is powered by a thorium reactor? 🙂
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I calculate 20 years for the “replicator”.
But, yep, a lot less than that for a personal chef machine in up-scale homes.
Maybe even less time: Personal chefs driving around with kitchen, cupboards, and refrigerator in the truck, fixing high-end restaurant meals for the mass market.
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Yes, portability to where the demand exists.That should be the norm already.
I’m stumped that they haven’t been able to take the cost of home delivery and fold it into the price of a lousy pizza. But the rollout of this enormous leap in technology works within the same range of numbers?
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“As I have stated repeatedly, millions of driving jobs are going to vanish. This is yet another aspect of what’s coming.”
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The question is “when”, not “if” … put me down for a lot longer than you think.
The coming recession will place a lot of capital expenditure plans in the circular file.
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I can’t wrap my head around any of the dilemmas pointed out here, I simply can not get past how anyone could eat Domino’s.
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Better ingredients
Better pizza
Better … drunk?
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If I remember, the leftover piece tasted better the next morning with the hangover.
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Good luck with those driverless cars using our “maintenance free” infrastructure…
any projection on how many bridges will still be standing by 2021?
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Yet another aspect of what’s coming – the Pizza man in porn movies is going to vanish.
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As a person who has watched a friend work both for Pizza Hut as a driver and Uber, I dont think you understand how this business model works. Pizza Hut enslaves its employees to get car maintenance and repairs paid for by the car owner/driver, not by Pizza Hut. You give a driver $1-2 per pizza per delivery and expect the driver to pay for the $500 brakes and $500 tires and $500 misc repairs and $50 oil changes. The Pizza Hut employees work for free essentially, or they work for the opportunity to drive when they need to. Pizza Hut expects the driver’s friends and family to help pay for car maintenance (like me) and spare Pizza Hut that cost. Same principal with Uber. Wait till the dum-dums at Domino suddenly remember why they got rid of Domino-owned cars long ago.
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If ethically financed, one would expect automation to benefit nearly everyone. However, to the extent that automation has been financed with what is, due to extensive government privileges* for private depository institutions (aka “banks”), the PUBLIC’S CREDIT but for private gain, automation has NOT been ethically financed so we should have no expectation of universal benefit.
*eg: Why can the banks have checking accounts in fiat but the citizens can’t?
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Why would a low margin pizza place pay for a *very* expensive depreciating asset that zigzags while burning fuel when they can buy relatively inexpensive drones that fly in straight lines?
Most local delivery places have an area of 2-3 square miles. Hard to imagine a drone not being able to do that. Why do they need cars to do this?!?
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bicycles
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I think most of you guys are ignoring the reality of what has happened in other examples where automation has replaced humans. Think “self checkouts” at the store. By and large, they are less convenient for the customer and they cost the customer time at the checkout compared to having a live cashier. They reduce store costs I presume, otherwise why would they continue annoying the customers with these things?
The self-driving pizza delivery robot will be less convenient for the customer than having a live delivery person. The customer will electronically prepay. The robot will send a text message as it is nearing the customer’s house which will be the equivalent of, “Here! Catch!” If you are not at the curb to catch your order at the appointed time, then it will be eaten by the stray neighborhood dogs.
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The blog host simply loves to stir it up. Every chance he gets to talk about automation eliminating millions of jobs, it brings out all the crazies with their pitchforks. The reality is that automation eliminated 97% of farm jobs over the last 100 years, yet we still grow more food every year and there are more people working every year. It’s called Capitalism and human ingenuity and it’s a good thing. Get used to it.
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It’s called Capitalism Realist
Government privileges for private credit creation allow those with capital, aka equity, to avoid borrowing at honest interest rates or honestly sharing their equity but instead to legally steal the purchasing power/real saving opportunity/real investment opportunity from those with less or no equity. That’s not capitalism but legalized theft.
and human ingenuity Realist
Then let’s use that ingenuity, guided by ethical principles, to reform our fiat and credit creation systems and provide restitution for its victims. And restitution is not impossible in real terms as some think, eg. the proper abolition of government-provided deposit insurance should require a large amount of new fiat to be equally distributed to the population.
How to finance the fiat distribution? Well, the debt of a monetary sovereign is inherently risk-free so the yield or interest on it should be at most 0% MINUS administrative costs and that’s for the longest maturity waits (eg.30 yr. US Treasury Bonds); shorter maturity waits should cost more with private* and foreign sector account balances at the central bank costing the most (most negative interest).
So by eliminating welfare for the banks and the rich we can finance restitution for their victims.
*An exception to this is that individual citizens should be allowed a single negative-interest-free account each at the central bank up to, say, a $250,000 balance limit. Provisions could be made to allow individual citizens with unused negative-interest-free account space to rent or lease it out.
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Thanks for proving my point; crazies with pitchforks. It’s pizza delivery.
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never say never . This reminds of the time many years ago a friend tried to get me to invest in in the nascent cable TV business. I said no way, that will never happen.
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Domino’s – yuk. I want Papa Murphy’s bake-it-yourself pizza to begin deliveries, a MUCH better product for the money.
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Socialize the risk;
Privatize the reward.
So long as it remains, I have no pizza preference either way.
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London is trialling Autonomous ready EV delivery trucks in City.
As soon as the legislation is passed they can be turned-on.
They can be built by one man in 8 hours and service times are very short.
It’s happening much quicker than most would have thought.
They cost no more than the Diesel equivalent but total cost of ownership could be lower.
https://electrek.co/2017/08/23/royal-mail-new-electric-autonomous-truck-arrival/
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The article says nothing about these vehicles being autonomous. It says they are electric. At the end of the article it mentions the company is also “pursuing autonomous driving technology.” Hardly what your post claims.
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I am sure our blog host is posting a lot of this driverless car nonsense to annoy commenters and drive extra traffic to his ads… but he is basing each post off yet another media report.
Gullible college grads with communications majors, who landed a part time minimum wage job writing copy for a website, are attempting to pay down enough debt to move out of mommy’s basement — by writing about this stuff.
Even if they work out the technology kinks, the cultural issues haven’t even been considered much less addressed
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Yep. Our host keeps sucking in the gullible posters. And some fall for it, posting 10, 20 or more times per day, every single day, spouting their angry nonsense. Our host loves these gullible types and feeds off them. I expect to keep reading their daily missives for many years, while our host continues to profit from them.
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The most popular browser add-on in the USA is ad-blocker. Its usually in the top 5 globally.
That is the basic vanilla way to block ad money… there are lots of more sophisticated ways to block even more ads.
Our blog host only makes money on people who aren’t tech savvy.
Between committing advertising fraud (what else do you call billing customers for ad-clicks that don’t happen?) and rampant censorship — it will be interesting to watch how far and how fast Google, Amazon and Faceplant fall (amazon makes its money off AWS and ad-hosting, not off its money losing e-shopping site)
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Avast Safezone browser includes ad blocking, bank mode with secure encryption, video downloads and more, all in the free basic package.
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O/T — Somebody wake Senator John McCain!! (or put an AED to his heart, jolt him with caffeine, whichever)
The French are about to launch a chemical attack on Crosby, Texas! Well, actually a chemical plant owned by a French company is about to explode, but details schmeetails. Its an opportunity to go to war, so just go with it.
The French, instead of bringing in extra backup generators (the actual backup generators flooded like they were at Fukashima nuclear plant) — the French are bringing in a command center so they can watch it explode from a safe distance, and executives can act concerned without stepping away from their croissants. French priorities you know. Frigging Texans don’t even have stinky cheese on hand.
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Pizzas are already shaped much like frisbees. Add a little control center into the crust and these could be launched to customers from a central location. All a customer needs is a specially trained dog to catch the pizza as it rockets past their door.
About as likely as self-driving pizzas.
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Today I stopped in traffic behind a garbage truck. A robot arm reached out from the top of the truck. The arm picked up the garbage can, emptied it into the truck and replaced it neatly at the curb. I waited while it picked a second can. The driver has not been replaced. Shotgun rider is missing.
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One evening I watched a pizza girl climb over a ten foot iron gate to our gated community. It’s part of the job description.
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If a company can exploit its employees/contractors it will.
A firm only can pay for the value added or else it fails. For some the ‘value add’ is long term and for others the ‘value add’ is short term and encourages exploitation.
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Google and Apple pay their employees amounts that doesn’t cover rent in San Francisco… thousands of employees live in RVs parked outside the company parking lots
Google and especially Faceplant charge for ads and clicks that no one makes — not even the automated click farms (where software simulates clicks on ads that no human ever sees, but advertisers are charged anyway).
What would the US stock market look like without the FAANG stocks? At least three are based on advertising that is vastly over-stated (humans aren’t seeing the ads). Apple hasn’t invented anything since Jobs’ death. Netflix still loses money, as a lot of content is priced based on what cable TV used to be able to pay before they alienated customers.
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Didn’t our blog host recently pull forward his estimate for when self driving cars would happen? To 2019 or 2020 a few weeks ago?
Now he’s saying 2022?
The tech may or may not be ready by then — I would defer to the Google researchers who are still saying “we don’t know”.
The cultural impacts are not going to get solved by 2022. Our blog host is WAY off on when the technology will actually get implemented (versus when it may or may not be “ready” according to engineers).
Too many underemployed people (nothing to do with self driving per se, but everything to do with how companies interact with customers).
Way too much debt all over the system (again, driverless cars may not care, but customers care about getting credit, and businesses care about getting paid).
Dominoes is in the business of selling pizza. They will implement a new technology if, and only if, it benefits their overall business.
Saving a buck on delivery is great when viewed in isolation. But how does this impact the business and profits overall? Fast, cheap delivery to customers who don’t pay or aren’t waiting curbside for their robot driver — is a failed delivery
Only successful deliveries matter — ones that are made on time to happy, paying customers. That is as much a cultural question as a technology question
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Medex I am getting tired of your total bullshit
Knock it off
I have a timeline for trucks and a different one for cars and taxis.
I never said 2019 but some manufacturers have said they will be ready by then
One more piece of crap sticking words in my nouth that I never said and you are gone.
I am tired of this shit.
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A million dollars for a self-driving car to deliver pizza? Good lord.
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Driverless cars delivering flavorless pizza.
It still costs about a buck to make a pepperoni pizza. Most households have an oven and refrigerator. The 30-40 minutes it takes for the pizza to get to your house is plenty of time to construct and bake your own pie. Yes you have to plan ahead a little, but most of the ingredients store/freeze well so you can have them on hand months in advance. And it’s kind of fun too.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/01/volvo-admits-its-self-driving-cars-are-confused-by-kangaroos
The problem of hopping.
Say no more.
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http://www.autonews.com/article/20160210/OEM06/160219995/self-driving-cars-succumb-to-snow-blindness-as-driving-lanes-disappear
Thank god they can recognize elk. But then there is the winter problem. Haven´t seen that rebutted yet by any engineers. But please, dream on. And it is not just about positioning, it´s about the driving technique too.
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Hey Mish, Cummins just came out with an electric semi engine.
It can haul a standard, 44,000 lb load 100 miles on a 60/20 minute charge.
The “extended range model” uses a diesel powered generator to extend that range to 300 miles.
That’s looking out as far ast 2020. We may have some form of automated driving, but it won’t be in electric trucks.
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I don’t think that pizza delivery is going to be the killer app for driverless cars. I suspect it will be something that we are overlooking now, but which will seem obvious in retrospect. I was reading several articles about how the Cajun Navy put some fairly simple apps and computer programs to great use to organize their rescue of people in Houston, and also how insurance companies are using drones to assess damage faster. You should do an article brainstorming how driverless cars, boats, drones, or other forms of automation and AI might be used in all types of future disasters. I’ll bet you’d get some interesting comments on that from your readers.
http://3dinsider.com/drones-hurricane-harvey/
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-harvey/soshouston-how-apps-social-media-assist-harvey-rescue-efforts-n797841
https://qz.com/1065089/volunteers-are-coordinating-harvey-rescue-efforts-through-crowdsourcing-and-zello/
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