In reality, the whole concept of automated delivery in this fashion is a difficult situation to triage.
We can ignore the usual promotional aspect that the media tend to lean on when such articles are offered
and rationally look to see if having 'robots' -a loose term in this case, can be integrated into the well-developed
and multi-intricate social system we already have.
Delivery of paid-for goods demands understanding the positive and negative variables that a machine cannot
-to date, comprehend in its manner of calculating their goals. We can brush past the moral aspect of failure
and consequences to perform an act and simply move on to what Ninurta was suggesting.
Acceptance and value.
Humans will always take time to adjust to a new 'invader' to a system. It's fine when the manufacturer offers
well-designed imagery of 'nice' middle-class people enjoying fine weather and plucking a coffee from a polite
box on wheels. But reality rarely works in this manner and apart from the obvious obstacles of terrain, human
-favouring stairs and larger speeding vehicles, the human themselves will always endeavour to hamper the
affirmation of such devices.
There's always someone who'll push one of these things into a river for a lark, there's always someone who'll
draw male genitalia on the lid of a passing robot and I'm sure there's someone out there right now with the
means to control the direction of these little trundling carriers for their own ends. Disregarding the shotgun
damage certain Rogue Nation members would dispense just for the giggles, it'll become regular to see a
delivery-robot with a wheel missing or a dulled aerial-light because of the simple aspect of support costs.
(See New York subway trains for example)
And that is the real feature to consider here when introducing a new product into an already established
system. The price-tag of having machines deliver goods will be initially ruinous to the arrangement we
currently have.
Jobs lost, social and legal changes to cater for a different vehicle on pedestrian passages, effects on the laws
in different countries and the repercussions of accidents, even the idea that the quantity of the cargo may not
be worth a comprehensive price to have them perform their tasks. In today's Green-Is-Best paradigm, will a
narrative be offered to show the benefits of creating such mechanical assisants set against the alleged
ramifications of what we currently have.
It would also be interesting to know who will foot the bill for such an upkeep and the effect of such a payment
if it is pushed to be absorbed into the public psyche. But sadly, these questions will fall at the roadside, the
article is merely a funded piece of 'media-nudging' and is no different from a different brand of soda entering
the marketplace.
The truth is that when the retail-outlet that bought into the enterprise realise that the Beep-Boop they fished
out of the river with its lid torn-off and a large penis scrawled on its side has failed to complete its task to their
customer, then full price will become apparent... apparent to those who wanted it in the first place.
We can ignore the usual promotional aspect that the media tend to lean on when such articles are offered
and rationally look to see if having 'robots' -a loose term in this case, can be integrated into the well-developed
and multi-intricate social system we already have.
Delivery of paid-for goods demands understanding the positive and negative variables that a machine cannot
-to date, comprehend in its manner of calculating their goals. We can brush past the moral aspect of failure
and consequences to perform an act and simply move on to what Ninurta was suggesting.
Acceptance and value.
Humans will always take time to adjust to a new 'invader' to a system. It's fine when the manufacturer offers
well-designed imagery of 'nice' middle-class people enjoying fine weather and plucking a coffee from a polite
box on wheels. But reality rarely works in this manner and apart from the obvious obstacles of terrain, human
-favouring stairs and larger speeding vehicles, the human themselves will always endeavour to hamper the
affirmation of such devices.
There's always someone who'll push one of these things into a river for a lark, there's always someone who'll
draw male genitalia on the lid of a passing robot and I'm sure there's someone out there right now with the
means to control the direction of these little trundling carriers for their own ends. Disregarding the shotgun
damage certain Rogue Nation members would dispense just for the giggles, it'll become regular to see a
delivery-robot with a wheel missing or a dulled aerial-light because of the simple aspect of support costs.
(See New York subway trains for example)
And that is the real feature to consider here when introducing a new product into an already established
system. The price-tag of having machines deliver goods will be initially ruinous to the arrangement we
currently have.
Jobs lost, social and legal changes to cater for a different vehicle on pedestrian passages, effects on the laws
in different countries and the repercussions of accidents, even the idea that the quantity of the cargo may not
be worth a comprehensive price to have them perform their tasks. In today's Green-Is-Best paradigm, will a
narrative be offered to show the benefits of creating such mechanical assisants set against the alleged
ramifications of what we currently have.
It would also be interesting to know who will foot the bill for such an upkeep and the effect of such a payment
if it is pushed to be absorbed into the public psyche. But sadly, these questions will fall at the roadside, the
article is merely a funded piece of 'media-nudging' and is no different from a different brand of soda entering
the marketplace.
The truth is that when the retail-outlet that bought into the enterprise realise that the Beep-Boop they fished
out of the river with its lid torn-off and a large penis scrawled on its side has failed to complete its task to their
customer, then full price will become apparent... apparent to those who wanted it in the first place.
Read The TV Guide, yer' don't need a TV.