Delivery Robots.... hmmm.

[Workingman]

The area where I live is the victim of a delivery robot trial.

There are about ten of these motorised delivery boxes ambling their way slowly, very slowly and erratically, up and down the paths and roads. They do not seem to know what they are doing.

I was turning in to a road when one was crossing and even though I gave it right of way it just stopped. It eventually reversed back onto the path. When I had gone I looked in my mirror and it was still just sat there.

On another occasion one met a woman with a pushchair - it was stalemate for a while with both of them stopped. The woman eventually had to put the pushchair and child into the road to get round the robot.

The thinking is that these will eventually take over from delivery vans. Not a hope in Hell.

[Suff]

The operative word is "these".

Whatever we see in the future, what we are seeing now are highly unlikely to be the solution. However they need to try and to develop. If they don't try and develop solutions and gather data, they will never do it.

[saundra]

They have been in use in Milton Keynes for years
I would be absolutely thrilled to see them in use
Especially at night belting out a tune
Sad but true I just don't care about technical issues and why or wearfore it's magic and Xmas

[Workingman]

Whatever we see in the future, what we are seeing now are highly unlikely to be the solution. However they need to try and to develop. If they don't try and develop solutions and gather data, they will never do it.

OK, I'll send them round your place and let them have a play there.

A van and a driver only takes up one part of the road. The driver can react instantly to most situations and can deliver multiple tens of parcels in one round trip. They might do three or four routes in a day. To cover them would need 50 or so robots working flat out, maybe more.

If they cause congestion, and they will, I can see frustrated drivers simply shunting them off the road.

[Kaz]

They have been in use in Milton Keynes for years
I would be absolutely thrilled to see them in use
Especially at night belting out a tune
Sad but true I just don't care about technical issues and why or wearfore it's magic and Xmas

Saundra, you're so funny sometimes, I am giggling like a lunatic here

[Suff]

OK, I'll send them round your place and let them have a play there.
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If they cause congestion, and they will, I can see frustrated drivers simply shunting them off the road.

Agreed but you need to be tolerant of change if you are going to see things change.

Wages removed conductors from busses and trains for the most part. Current minimum wages are driving a change to the delivery structure where the driver is no longer required.

I was reading the wiki page on the blue streak yesterday. Because of the way we'd made the rocket, the computer was stretched to the absolute limit just trying to keep the rocket on track with the limited gimbal and diminishing fuel. My watch has more power than that. A LOT more power than that.

As we generate ever more powerful and compute dense technology we are going to use it to replace humans for jobs machines are simply better for. It is inevitable. The more serious efforts (outside of Tesla and the robotaxi efforts), are currently on the trucks which ply the highways going from depot to depot. They want to get rid of the drivers so they can run the things 24x7.

If you think these things are poorly suited to their task today, just consider them trying to put a parcel in the top drawer of an Amazon locker....

Progress rolls on. The youth of today love them and want to see more of them. Those somewhat more "mature" members of society don't see the reason. Because they never grew up with them.

[saundra]

But we don't want to know anything about technical stuff suff
Just want one coming up my path and belting out
Very loud merry Xmas with its lights on of course
Have you no humour?? don't answer that
Merry Xmas suff and not forgetting WM your partner in crime

[Workingman]

Merry Xmas suff and not forgetting WM your partner in crime

Saun, I'd love one sitting outside belting out "Let is snow, let is snow. let it snow" Or anther Deano...It's knowing that your door is sometimes open, and your path is free to walk. But you didn't answer my door knock... so your parcel is wrapped and ready and is stacked behind your bin.

[saundra]

There you go WM they just make you smile

[Suff]

Merry Xmas suff and not forgetting WM your partner in crime

Thank you Saundra. To you all too.

I'd go for the Christmas music too. But there are plenty who would grouch..

Always good to laugh about stuff, the water in this let was frozen and blocked this morning.... Fixed now but who takes the pipe out of the ground, outside the property and then puts it back through the wall without insulation????