[HN Gopher] Amazon reportedly working on Echo Frames for deliver...
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Amazon reportedly working on Echo Frames for delivery drivers
Author : gmays
Score : 9 points
Date : 2024-11-17 19:24 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| serendipty01 wrote:
| > The aim is to give drivers turn-by-turn directions, thereby
| shaving seconds off of each delivery.
|
| Manna coming to life (https://marshallbrain.com/manna)
| righthand wrote:
| If you like Vonnegut, then Player Piano too.
| Animats wrote:
| That's how the previous generation of Amazon warehouses worked,
| with pickers wearing headgear that told them where to go. Now
| that part is done with robots, which bring the shelves to the
| pickers.
| jdietrich wrote:
| Manna has been a reality for more than a decade. Practically
| the entire warehousing industry uses a fully automated voice
| system that's almost exactly as Brain describes. An increasing
| number of retailers are using headset communication with both
| human and automated elements - your headset receives voice
| messages from co-workers, managers and automated systems.
|
| https://www.lucasware.com/voice-picking-introduction/
|
| https://www.x-hoppers.com/
| BadHumans wrote:
| Conspiracy theorist in me says the large amount of video data
| will be sent back to train their AI on including facial
| recognition.
| r9295 wrote:
| This brings to mind a recent thought I had - our senses and
| intuition continue to be abstracted and delegated. It is
| especially humiliating when this delegation, which we must obey,
| is derived from data which we are unable to comprehend or
| perceive.
|
| The medium is the message
| nytesky wrote:
| One other benefit would be for the confirmation images that
| drivers take of a delivery. Rather than schlepping out a phone,
| they just tap their glasses as they put a package down. Much less
| hassle and I think would shave time.
| scinadier wrote:
| > The goal is to "shave seconds" off delivery times by giving
| drivers turn-by-turn directions.
|
| I'm sure the primary goal is to help train an autonomous agent to
| deliver packages in their stead.
| gopher_space wrote:
| I mean everyone already has turn-by-turn directions emanating
| from their pocket, so that's a point in favor of your argument.
|
| I'd imagine they'd (also) want to create their own "actual
| location" address book. The USPS isn't set up to or interested
| in compiling that info for anyone, and first responders don't
| think anyone else needs access to their data.
| chiph wrote:
| Wouldn't it be better to optimize the directions so their drivers
| make fewer left turns? UPS did that a couple of decades ago.
| wenc wrote:
| Not sure if it's true anymore.
|
| It made the headlines in 2017 and sort of became a meme, but in
| practice, indiscriminately avoiding left turns in routing can
| lead to huge inefficiencies.
|
| In my city, trying to avoid one left turn may mean taking 3-4
| block detour due to one-way streets. It may decrease fuel
| usage, but it increases delivery time, and if I'm not mistaken,
| for most carriers, driver time costs more than price of fuel.
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