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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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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It isn’t because of parking issues
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I've got a similar hope that e-bike companies will start offering cargo bikes.
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This seems to be an area where the Japanese have things figured out better
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yes, strange. there are electric golf carts but nothing, it seems, to help take your shopping home.
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One is, but it seems more of a science project than a real producthttps://piaggiofastforward.com/gita
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