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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 3835154" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>The underlying flaw with ORION is that the algorithm is based upon the assumption that the driver can open the bulkhead door, step inside, and select any package in the car in seven seconds or less.</p><p>The absurdity of this assumption is magnified during peak season when routes wont contain and stops are bagged up and shuttled out to us, meaning that ORION is literally instructing us to deliver stops in the AM that are not physically on our cars and wont be until we get to the pod and pick them up at 6:00 at night.</p><p>Its other flaw is that it views pickups as nothing but points on a map with commit times.</p><p>To a driver in the <em>real</em> world, pickups are not simply points on a map. They are <em>cubic feet of space</em> that must be made available in the car during that time frame.</p><p>Cubic feet of delivery volume=X</p><p>Cubic feet of pickup volume=Y</p><p>Cubic feet of space in the car=Z</p><p>If X+Y equals or exceeds Z the equation fails.</p><p>The closer that X +Y get to Z, the more that the drivers SPORH is degraded due to having to fight the bulk, thus magnifying the flaw in ORION’s equation.</p><p><u>Peak season is about efficiently managing the finite amount of space in the car and making adjustments to the delivery trace in order to compensate.</u> Drivers in the <em>real</em> world know this. ORION does not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 3835154, member: 14668"] The underlying flaw with ORION is that the algorithm is based upon the assumption that the driver can open the bulkhead door, step inside, and select any package in the car in seven seconds or less. The absurdity of this assumption is magnified during peak season when routes wont contain and stops are bagged up and shuttled out to us, meaning that ORION is literally instructing us to deliver stops in the AM that are not physically on our cars and wont be until we get to the pod and pick them up at 6:00 at night. Its other flaw is that it views pickups as nothing but points on a map with commit times. To a driver in the [I]real[/I] world, pickups are not simply points on a map. They are [I]cubic feet of space[/I] that must be made available in the car during that time frame. Cubic feet of delivery volume=X Cubic feet of pickup volume=Y Cubic feet of space in the car=Z If X+Y equals or exceeds Z the equation fails. The closer that X +Y get to Z, the more that the drivers SPORH is degraded due to having to fight the bulk, thus magnifying the flaw in ORION’s equation. [U]Peak season is about efficiently managing the finite amount of space in the car and making adjustments to the delivery trace in order to compensate.[/U] Drivers in the [I]real[/I] world know this. ORION does not. [/QUOTE]
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