Skies filled with zipping drones. Streets and sidewalks teeming with as many robots as people. Solutions are in the works to alleviate the strain of delivery gridlock in crowded cities.
Each time a customer clicks “check out,” another order adds to swirling delivery chaos: trucks clog city streets, drivers circle to find parking, bikes swerve around package carts.from 2019, to 7.2 million, McKinsey & Co. predicts. That means more carbon emissions, more traffic congestion and—despite the rise of near-instant deliveries—probably more unhappiness in city life.
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