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It sounds like an excellent job for a machine to do: dull, repetitive, damaging to humans.

Use humans to do last-mile delivery of the goods, but let a machine do the open road.

Last mile can be some of the least fun part of the job. Getting in and out of town in traffic in a city you haven't been to, waiting hours or a day for someone to load it unload your truck. Other than trying to keep up with the dispatcher who forgets you aren't driving a racecar, the open road can be the nice part of the trip.

I'm assuming that in a logistic chain the last mile bit can and should be done by local companies.

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