Posted on 01/03/2019 10:41:48 AM PST by bgill
Forget vending machines, PepsiCo is testing a way to bring snacks directly to college students. The chip and beverage maker says it will start making deliveries with self-driving robots on Thursday at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Students will be able to order Baked Lay's, SunChips or Bubly sparkling water on an app, and then meet the six-wheeled robot at more than 50 locations on campus... Three workers on the campus will be refilling the robots with food and drinks and replacing the batteries with recharged ones when they go dead... PepsiCo says it's testing this way to deliver its snacks because more of its customers want a convenient way to buy them on their phones.
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Aren't batteries bad for the environment?
and mobile garbage can
Diabetes in the can.
We deliver !
I think they need to try thi6 sout at one of the nation’s “historically black colleges.” The robot and all it’s snacks will go missing on the first day...
On the bright side, it will not be necessary to tip the robots!
A remote controlled and modified M113 would be better.
Parking lot to parking lot.
Rubber tracks of course.
Cant imagine the bag of 80% air and pop is going to be cheaper to buy from a robot.
When robots are doing all the work and delivering all the goods, what good will people be? Why should they have any money if they’re not producing anything? Will they just lob around and take everything free that the robots bring them?
Then there will soon be no useful humans around. They will not have learned anything, (why bother going to school) and will not be able to design new robots or fix the old ones.
I have serious concerns about that.
I can see people proposing extreme population control measures to get rid of the “useless eaters” when we reach the point where few people actually contribute to society.
I can also see a “back to the land” movement where people are not expected to contribute much of anything, but they are sent out to small “hobby farms” to more-or-less support themselves — just to keep them out of trouble. But I imagine a percentage of the population would resist any plan that seems like it’s sending people out to the fields to pick cotton.
I just don’t see a good outcome. I think a very large percentage of the population is going to be “useless” within my lifetime — and I am not young. People don’t do well if they have no purpose in life.
“When robots are doing all the work and delivering all the goods, what good will people be?”
But will robots be able to invent Doritos?
Captain Kirk argues with the snack truck.
Kirk: I submit that you are the evil.
Fulfil the prime directive.
Those fast carbs won’t eat themselves. ;-)
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