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Orion, driverless package cars, delivery robots, and the future of UPS
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<blockquote data-quote="FrigidFTSup" data-source="post: 2162944" data-attributes="member: 58894"><p>I put 2040-2050, though I believe it will be closer to 2050 than 2040. Technology growth over the last 15 years has been tremendous. Arguably grown faster than the 30 years before that. We're at a point now where driverless cars aren't that far off. Tesla is doing amazing things with it right now. Are we talking about driverless feeders in 5 or 10 years? Probably not. But 15-20. Possibly.</p><p></p><p>The biggest challenge will of course be loading and unloading package cars and the actual delivery. For it to be economically feasible you'd still need 1 robot for multiple cars. Then you need to figure out how to adjust it to different sized packages. Loading feeders, I don't really think will be that hard. There are already robots that can build pallets. It is a much bigger jump going to feeders, but the technology jump isn't near as large as driverless cars or loading. </p><p></p><p>The next 30 years will be interesting company wide in regards to automation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FrigidFTSup, post: 2162944, member: 58894"] I put 2040-2050, though I believe it will be closer to 2050 than 2040. Technology growth over the last 15 years has been tremendous. Arguably grown faster than the 30 years before that. We're at a point now where driverless cars aren't that far off. Tesla is doing amazing things with it right now. Are we talking about driverless feeders in 5 or 10 years? Probably not. But 15-20. Possibly. The biggest challenge will of course be loading and unloading package cars and the actual delivery. For it to be economically feasible you'd still need 1 robot for multiple cars. Then you need to figure out how to adjust it to different sized packages. Loading feeders, I don't really think will be that hard. There are already robots that can build pallets. It is a much bigger jump going to feeders, but the technology jump isn't near as large as driverless cars or loading. The next 30 years will be interesting company wide in regards to automation. [/QUOTE]
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