• FRYD@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    You’re not wrong, but my point was the fact that automated deliveries are a far off fantasy. By the time the physical technology exists to do this, the collected data will be irrelevant. Sure it would be better as a communist fantasy, but the reality is this is useless data being sold to companies that want to pretend it’s possible so their stock value goes up.

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        A single company has some robots delivering short distances in three affluent FL cities. Boxes on wheels will work in a tiny fraction of places around the country and the world. The vast majority of the data collected is useless for them. The technology doesn’t exist to do any better either.

        Like I said, Coco Robotics the company behind the FL robot deliveries is more likely to be a company hoping to be bought on the promise they can do more in the future than actually expecting to do any more. They’re private, so we don’t even know what their actual economics look like.

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          9 hours ago

          I’m sorry, but you’re mistaken. The market leader, Starship Technologies:

          As of October 2024, the company operates in over 100 locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland and Estonia.

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            9 hours ago

            Huh, fair enough. Still, I do delivery work as my day job and I’m not worried about a box on wheels taking my job.

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              No disrespect, but you probably should worry a little, I don’t mean to be a downer, I want to encourage you to organize, join or form a union, so that we can fight back against this stuff. We really need to get off our collective asses and depose the ruling class, and that will need us to get organized.