Much has been made about a consumer society where deliveries of packages or groceries to consumers went from 2 weeks to 2 days to now 2 hours. And for businesses, rapid and just-in-time deliveries from suppliers give new meaning to the supply chain—factories and warehouses can maintain less inventory, reducing holding costs and reducing the risk of inventory becoming obsolete. As the pandemic accelerated the adoption of delivery as a modality, the case for autonomous technologies—autonomous cars and trucks, sidewalk robots and pods, drones—to cut merchant costs and to close the gap between rising demand and labor shortage is even greater.
Very interesting piece. Curious to understand where the AV stack ends and the delivery application begins? Excited for the future of AV!