The authors are ignorant of what shopping was like pre-Internet. I would often spend half of Saturday driving all over the place to many different stores trying to find the right parts I needed for a home project. Now I do the research online, find the part, order it, and it’s delivered to me in a day or two. The TOTAL miles driven today by the Amazon driver or the UPS driver is far below what I used to drive in the old days.
This is a flawed analysis.
Good point. Next, we may have smaller, more efficient drones delivering packages.
Right on target. Failing to factor in the reduction due to taking all those cars on all those shopping trips off the road is a major flaw.