I’m guessing robotaxis will come first, just because it’s easier and requires less coordination between multiple parties, and then the demand for movable lockers will probably be satisfied by, well, movable containers that can go inside the robotaxis and use “AI” to follow people around when outside of the taxis, or maybe initially just containers that people can push around.
If “take out your stuff every time you leave and check whether the previous user did every time you enter” turns out to be a big issue (don’t people already do this all the time in regular taxis?) the robotaxis could have a narrow AI to scan and detect items that have been left behind, and remind you before you leave.
“interference by users” can be handled the same way.
Allergy to perfumes seems too rare to matter much, and could be handled by building a HEPA filter into the robotaxis.
“A lot of complexity is removed from production, so these are much cheaper to build than robotaxis.” But this is actually a “con” for the tugs/wagons model because this saving is more than made up for by the additional wagons that would have to be built.
All in all it doesn’t seem like your model offers enough additional value on top of the default scenario to overcome the additional coordination and other costs.
I’m guessing robotaxis will come first, just because it’s easier and requires less coordination between multiple parties, and then the demand for movable lockers will probably be satisfied by, well, movable containers that can go inside the robotaxis and use “AI” to follow people around when outside of the taxis, or maybe initially just containers that people can push around.
If “take out your stuff every time you leave and check whether the previous user did every time you enter” turns out to be a big issue (don’t people already do this all the time in regular taxis?) the robotaxis could have a narrow AI to scan and detect items that have been left behind, and remind you before you leave.
“interference by users” can be handled the same way.
Allergy to perfumes seems too rare to matter much, and could be handled by building a HEPA filter into the robotaxis.
“A lot of complexity is removed from production, so these are much cheaper to build than robotaxis.” But this is actually a “con” for the tugs/wagons model because this saving is more than made up for by the additional wagons that would have to be built.
All in all it doesn’t seem like your model offers enough additional value on top of the default scenario to overcome the additional coordination and other costs.