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We've got these things trundling around our pavements. They make me smile. Apparently, if they meet a pedestrian, they say "please excuse me" or something similar. I saw one waiting to cross the road. It appears you have to order a minimum of £15 of stuff and pay 99P for delivery. My grandsons are staying soon, I expect SWMBO will expect me to have one deliver. The website says you can change the tune they play!!!
A friend came across one at a busy T junction that had pulled out in front of a car and then couldn't decide what to do. A pedestrian picked it up and put it on the pavement.
White van man looked terrified as one came up the road. I tried to explain, but he wouldn't believe someone wasn't driving it remotely. Said they'd never believe him in t pub!
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I've seen them trundling the red ways in Milton Keynes, I assumed they were doing Amazon deliveries?
You'd think the scroats would kidnap them - or do they?
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>> You'd think the scroats would kidnap them - or do they?
Apparently, they send out a distress message if someone tampers with them. They turn up at your door and you have to put a PIN into them to open them.
Don't know what happened to the one that a member of the public picked up and put on the pavement.
Locals suggest they'll end up in the river, like most shopping trollies.
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If they get traffic off the road then that's a good thing.
Not so good of course is the loss of delivery driver jobs, but I guess, designing and building these things requires more skills.
They are cute. Could imagine a people sized one for campervanning.
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...you could find a pitch "just behind the green bin near the back door".…..
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What is to stop them from being stolen ?
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Or being kidnapped by humanoids?
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Lets hope they keep the genders apart, we could be overrun.
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>>What is to stop them from being stolen ?
>> Or being kidnapped by humanoids?
They're apparently in contact with a base and send an alert in case of tampering, I believe they can also emit a loud alarm. They've survived in Milton Keynes for some time and if they can survive there, they'll survive anywhere, although I don't know if there's a rate of attrition.
Chatting to a postman this morning as one went past, he said it was going the same way as him and wondered if he could hitch a lift by sitting cross-legged on top. He told me he came across one that couldn't get up a steep, dropped kerb and it asked for help.
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Talking of robotic autonomous delivery vehicles how is Liz Truss?
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>> I've seen them trundling the red ways in Milton Keynes, I assumed they were doing
>> Amazon deliveries?
The South Midlands Co Op use them. Every time I go the Rohan Shop at Stony Stratford I see them running about.
Couple of Co Op stores in Northampton too including a newish one near Quinton House School and one close to Abington Park which I used to see if dropping my colleague who lived that way off after work.
She mentioned that they talk including asking you to press buttons at Pelican type crossings.
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