![]() And a utilitarian delivery pod, which doesn’t need seats or creature comforts for occupants, can maximize return on investment. A robot that works almost all the time could cut two-day delivery into two hours. Delivery demand exists 24/7 and works best in the dead of night when there’s scant traffic on the road. And unlike ride hailing, driverless delivery is not dependent on the morning and evening rush when cabs are busiest. “The economics will be compelling and it will change consumer expectations in a fundamental way.”Īutomated delivery has plenty of advantages over robo-taxis, starting with fewer safety concerns about hauling cargo instead of humans. “The level of interest around autonomous goods delivery has gone up dramatically,” said Asutosh Padhi, a McKinsey senior partner. predicts that in less than a decade, 80 percent of all items will be delivered autonomously. Automating the arrival of all those brown boxes on front porches would slash shipping costs in half, experts say. alone delivering more than 5 billion packages to its Prime members last year. Consumers now favor shopping online to schlepping to the mall, with Inc. ![]() “The moment business people start believing this is going to generate additional revenue and that this is going to be more efficient, then I think they’ll start working on it.”Īnd no wonder: The potential market is huge. “The revolution in commercial vehicles will come first, then the passenger cars” will follow, said Ashwani Gupta, senior vice president of Renault-Nissan’s light commercial vehicle business. But an increasing number of companies-automakers, tech giants, startups, parcel services-are seeing autonomous delivery as the more lucrative venture. The early conversations around driverless cars have focused on robot taxis because taking the human driver out of a cab seemed like the quickest path to profitability. The future-at least in the near-term-will not only be driverless, but sans passenger as well.
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