Urban planning focuses too much on moving people and ritually hating cars and not enough on moving goods breakbulk. If you had to design a major metro today from scratch, you’d probably start with a cargo underground with pallet-sized autonomous EVs and loading bays as base layer
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Serious question: how come the e-scooter companies haven’t explored a city-level streetworthy shopping cart idea? People do it anyway, not just homeless ones. Higher-tech stores put geofenced locks on their carts but the use case for moving goods up to ~1 mile is real.
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The shorter the median ownership period of a durable good, the more TCO estimates will be garbage due to very high variance delivery and transfer/disposal cost and illegible logistics snafu PTSD. Imagine getting a couch in/out of your home every day.
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Need a Coasean economics of lifestyles including a theory of transaction costs of ownership/rental of durable goods, both physical and digital
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Couldn't agree more; I too hate driving but it's just a reality. Even places like Whole Foods, you might walk to the store, but the goods are all delivered to the store by truck.
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And if you’re buying a lot hard to walk back with a dozen bags.
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I blame the couch! Always the worst part of moving.
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I found http://Trucksumo.com in India to address this
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