Thinking back to this CGP Grey video and how I believed it at the time.
And now:
US trucker shortage means everything is more expensive
The trucking industry has been short drivers for years, but the pandemic made it worse. The shortage means the price of groceries and moving costs are going up. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich reports.
Source: CNNBusiness
Autonomous vehicles are already being used for deliveries, they could be used for last-mile type stuff to reach places the tracks don't go.
Oh yeah? Where and what?
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/06/yandex-self-driving-group-partners-with-grubhub-to-bring-robotic-delivery-to-college-campuses/
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/fedex-test-nuro-autonomous-delivery-vehicles
A friend of mine was in Russia over the summer, and he commented that they were using similar tech in their "tech cities" (equivalent of Silicon Valley)