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> Google already tried to solve the last-mile delivery infrastructure problem and unsurprisingly appears to have found it intractable

This failure was more political in nature though, the technical solution is there

And we arrive at the premise. They can build the tech, but they can't be bothered to navigate the social dynamics that make up the rest of the world.

While the local politics are certainly an issue, their quirky micro-trenching methodology was also clearly a failure