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Yeah, cars should be clogging streets because people want to go get a hamburger instead.

But you understand that cars are made to transport people, and hamburgers are much smaller than people, hence it would be a tiny bit wasteful to drive hamburgers in "people cars", right?

But then a single car can carry multiple hamburgers to multiple people! Maybe that is still a better situation than multiple people driving multiple cars to each get a single hamburger :-)

So we need a car that drives around and makes hamburgers on-demand, drives to your home while it's being prepared, and delivers it hot and fresh to your door with a smaller bot.

To be clear, we do not need this, and I am being sarcastic. However, if a VC wants to fund me to do this, I'll try my best in the hours between my use of the startup's office sim-rig and the office wood workshop.

I believe you've (re)invented food trucks :)

Automated, VC-funded food trucks! Shittier food with less heart for twice the price!

And they scale! ;)

And when the truck runs out of ingredients to make hamburgers, a drone flies in and picks it up to take it to a ingredient-refill station.

It probably depends on where you live but I haven't had a food delivery in a car in like 3-4 years now. Drivers use bikes, e-bikes and mopeds.

In the U.S. unless you're in a big city, it's always cars.

It depends on what you consider the goal to be. If the goal is bring a hamburger and person to the same location. It doesn't really matter which is in the car.

A car wouldn't become more productive if you were to strap a person to the roof. If you instead happen to move that person inside the car for the trip, what exactly changes?

If only someone invented some sort of 25lb vehicle that one can use their own human power to travel upon. Maybe something with a chain and gearing? No, that would be fantasy, back to my 5000lb steel block I go.

The point of comparison here would be a human delivery driver, who (as I understand) can be carrying multiple deliveries at a time. I think with Waymo's service, it's one delivery at a time, which results in more cars on the road for the same demand? (Or are there potentially several orders in the trunk when you go to get yours out?)

The convenience factor means people will utilize one option more often than the other. These are not equivalent exchanges.

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