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What Does ORION Stand For?
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1405487" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>If properly implemented, ORION could theoretically calculate the shortest linear distance between the consecutive stops on a route that would result in the fewest miles being driven for that route. Put another way, <strong>it could theoretically outperform a driver at the job of connecting those 130 dots on a map in the shortest linear distance possible</strong>.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that, even if properly implemented (which seldom happens) the job of delivering a truck stuffed full of packages in real time, real weather, real traffic and in the real world to 130 different locations on a map in the most <em>efficient manner possible</em><strong> has little or nothing to do with the job of connecting those 130 dots on a map in the shortest linear distance possible.</strong></p><p></p><p>It serves no purpose to save 3/4 of a mile if it costs you 10 extra minutes of sitting at red lights, idling the engine and wasting fuel versus taking a slightly longer route with no stops or traffic to fight.</p><p></p><p>It serves no purpose to save 3/4 of a mile if doing so requires you to unload 50 packages into a pile on the street and then reload them back into the truck in order to dig out the one package that ORION is telling you to deliver.</p><p></p><p>Put another way...lets pretend you have errands to run consisting of grocery shopping, taking the dog to the vet, and getting your hair cut. ORION might tell you to save 4 miles by doing the shopping first, getting your hair cut second and taking the dog to the vet last.....but if you followed ORION then your ice cream would melt and your dog would wind up eating half of the groceries and then dying of heat stroke inside the car while you were inside getting a haircut. Real life isn't a video game of connect the dots.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1405487, member: 14668"] If properly implemented, ORION could theoretically calculate the shortest linear distance between the consecutive stops on a route that would result in the fewest miles being driven for that route. Put another way, [B]it could theoretically outperform a driver at the job of connecting those 130 dots on a map in the shortest linear distance possible[/B]. The problem is that, even if properly implemented (which seldom happens) the job of delivering a truck stuffed full of packages in real time, real weather, real traffic and in the real world to 130 different locations on a map in the most [I]efficient manner possible[/I][B] has little or nothing to do with the job of connecting those 130 dots on a map in the shortest linear distance possible.[/B] It serves no purpose to save 3/4 of a mile if it costs you 10 extra minutes of sitting at red lights, idling the engine and wasting fuel versus taking a slightly longer route with no stops or traffic to fight. It serves no purpose to save 3/4 of a mile if doing so requires you to unload 50 packages into a pile on the street and then reload them back into the truck in order to dig out the one package that ORION is telling you to deliver. Put another way...lets pretend you have errands to run consisting of grocery shopping, taking the dog to the vet, and getting your hair cut. ORION might tell you to save 4 miles by doing the shopping first, getting your hair cut second and taking the dog to the vet last.....but if you followed ORION then your ice cream would melt and your dog would wind up eating half of the groceries and then dying of heat stroke inside the car while you were inside getting a haircut. Real life isn't a video game of connect the dots. [/QUOTE]
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