[ExI] feedbot

[Adrian Tymes]

Greenville, NC has had bots of similar capability for a while, mostly just
serving the local university's area.

On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 12:49 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Over two decades ago, we had discussions in this forum on grocery delivery
> bots.
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> I went to the first DARPA challenge in 2004, where the game was to race
> completely autonomous vehicles on desert roads (in Arizona.)  None of the
> cars finished that year, but not long after that, several of them did.  It
> was perfectly clear that eventually self-drivers would be used as delivery
> vehicles.
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> The next town up the street has done it.  They have delivery bots for the
> short runs.  The restaurant which launched this week reports so far no
> theft or vandalism.
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> Granted, Fremont is a nice town with very little crime problems, but… they
> are demonstrating that the system works.
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> They are claiming this rig can legally go on bike paths and sidewalks, but
> I disagree on the second part of that.  Fremont has street-adjacent bike
> paths, as seen in the photo below.
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> The article claims this rig can go 20 miles per hour.
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> OK then.
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> spike
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