>How are you /g/ents enjoying this service?
They're piloting in one city.

Walmart, Amazon, everybody wants to try and make this happen. Before very much longer it will be a reality. All of thrse giant companies have a hard on for it, have for a long time.

>>33319433 (OP)
the only advantage for using the largest botnet in human history

>>33320189
i love botnets!

Nothing wrong can come of this.
Maybe it'll even open up a new series of jobs.
Minimum-wage Day Couriers.

>>33320340
>muh, muh, MUH FREEDOMS

>>33319650
>Walmart, Amazon, everybody wants to try and make this happen.
I would have rather they kept slower delivery and avoided physical locations so as to keep up the fight against sales taxes. I'd rather have my stuff cheaper than have it today, since I am shopping online after all.
>>33320369
>Minimum-wage Day Couriers.
only for a few years till we get self-driving vehicles

>>33320447
You still need someone to hand-deliver the packages.
You expect google to make autonomous robots that walk up to your front door within 5 years?

>>33319460
>one city
you mean the entire Bay Area (the parts that matter)?

>>33319433 (OP)
This service isn't actually new. It has been done before during the dot.com boom in New York City. At the time it was new for it's time.

>>33320476
nah, just put them at the end of the driveway/sidewalk/whatever. like newspapers.

>>33320544
>apartments
>in the fucking bay area, where there's almost zero houses

>>33320369
Minimum-wage day couriers already exist in major cities, dumbass.

>>33320544
Have you ever had anything delivered besides a newspaper? Jesus christ

>>33320571
Really?
I could use a job right about now.

>>33319433 (OP)
supermarkets do the same
but they have a more reliable supply

>>33320476
>robot uses google maps
>package ends up half a block away

>>33320640
Aren't those services catered toward old ladies and useless NEETs?

>>33320588
no, I'm saying that I'd walk 20 yards to pick up a box if it meant that box was cheaper because the process was completely automated

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>no cool google services will come to canada
i would kill to have google fibre

In the Netherlands some webshops already deliver within 2 hours.

Delivery within 24 hours is already standard.

>>33320657
>implying Apple maps won't send it to Mars

>>33320689
Or you can set a date and time when you want to receive it.

>>33320717
2 hours from now would be great. my headphones would arrive a lot faster

>>33320685
>completely automated
I can't wait for roving gangs of theives robbing the automated cars full of deliverables.

>>33320592
Do you have a bike? You can also apply at Jimmy John's or any other place that delivers

>>33320762
Pack every package with 3 layers of packing peanuts and launch them at people, it's faster than floating them around.

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remember those (rerun) old 1950's movies about "The House of the Future" - that's where this idea came from originaly.

>>33320780
>not launching at the doorstep with pinpoint accuracy
>letting human scum get packaged by the superior automaton G-van 5000

>>33319650
hikki paradise.

>>33320447

>keep up the fight against sales taxes

if google/amazon's distribution centers are taxed as retail locations then there's no way to fight it without completely moving out of the state. google/amazon aren't going to completely move out of california, so they might as well take advantage of their new retail tax status and compete with the retail chains directly. plus it makes walmart piss their pants because they weren't expecting the online retailers to respond by aiming straight at their market.

>>33320731
It's viable here because we're overpopulated as fuck.
Although all places look like a small villages, the country pretty much has the population density of a big city, so they can put distribution points everywhere and still make a profit.

In America this is much harder, considering the many remote villages you guys have.

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>>33320476
>robots that walk
pleb. this is the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf6JKJyFLVI

>>33320952
I wish but it'll never work. Too many bs laws plus all the shit people hang.

>Instead
>Suddenly Google purchases several modified bomb defusing robots
>Tracked robot descends from rear ramp of Google Van carrying package and traverses slopes and a few steps to deliver package near doorstep
>Google Van has Google cameras all over like the googlemaps car to prevent theft and will auto-notify local police with video evidence

>>33321060
Better yet, they just call you and agree to meet you on some street corner.
In fact, they do this with tons of people so everyone forms a little line and waits for the GoogleVan to arrive and give you your package by showing your ID.

>>33320369
Holy shit it's just like Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash

>>33321060
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=e3I--Ciizho#t=182s

>>33321100
This sounds like it would involve filthy people in my robotic fantasy.

>>33321125
hopefully google creates a fleet of solar electric hybrid cars for this purpose.

Package of spagetti jar + noodles arrived in time for me to start dinner.

>realize i can order something like this everyday, multiple times a day, for free

>>33319433 (OP)
Just like the Nexus, it's not widely available.

Also, Google sucks.