Peachtree Corners, a small secluded Georgia city, heralded as one of the the US’s first smart cities powered by real-world connected infrastructure and 5G communication, is piloting a robotic underground delivery system that will be able to provide foods and goods to homes and businesses in real-time, marking it as the world’s first autonomous robotic delivery system
In a press release published by the city on December 14th, and the partnering company Pipedream bringing this innovation to pass, the city stated: “The new delivery system is bringing consumers unprecedented convenience through faster, autonomous, efficient and cost-effective transportation channels. Peachtree Corners is the first city to launch and install the underground logistics solution, helping in the shared mission to eliminate emissions and congestion issues that plague current delivery infrastructure.”
Explaining how it will work, city officials remarked:
The system’s installation in Peachtree Corners spans almost one mile and connects a busy shopping center to the heart of Curiosity Lab’s 25,000-square-foot smart city innovation center.
Curiosity Lab members will be able to order food from a handful of restaurants and select convenience items on-demand, Monday through Friday during peak lunch hours. Pipedream’s logistics network leverages a physical, underground infrastructure in which delivery robots travel back and forth to transport food, packages, groceries, household goods and more in a fraction of the time.
The autonomous robotics system offers numerous benefits to city residents and businesses, such as the elimination of carbon emissions, the reduction of traffic congestion and noise pollution by taking driver miles off the road, the minimization of vehicular accidents and cheaper, faster delivery of goods.
Brandon Branham, Assistant City Manager and CTO of Peachtree Corners, said in a statement:
By bringing the delivery system underground and directly to the customer, Pipedream is showcasing the future of logistics technology that will not only bring added convenience to our residents and businesses but also reduce traffic, noise and emissions from delivery vehicles on our roads.
We are proud to be the first city in the world to implement and utilize Pipedream’s technology – leveraging its potential to transform logistics as we know it while delivering real commercial benefits and quality of life improvements in our community. The autonomous robot delivery system in Peachtree Corners is a continuation of what we’ve been able to achieve as an integrated smart city, utilizing smart infrastructure and the more innovative new technology to create a more sustainable, efficient and equitable community for all.
On the company’s website, Pipedream claims that their service “enables 95%+ of goods to be delivered to a community in less than 10 minutes for $1/delivery while sharing revenue with the city and bringing all emissions and congestion to 0 – solve last mile logistics once and for all.” Their transit system, they say, will allow for restaurants, grocery stores, and retail locations to “increase capacity and revenue by creating unlimited automated pickup and drive thru stations.”
Pipedream’s underground trollies are electric, autonomous robots that can travel at speeds above 40mph, that carry totes that can support around 40lbs of goods, with an above-ground temperature interface to better manage a weeks worth of groceries without a spoiling during transit, for example.
Moreover, according to their vision, Pipedream says:
By 2030, we want to achieve hyperlogistics. Hyperlogistics is a state of logistics where you can have things delivered reliably in under 10 minutes, for less than $1, return things just as easily as you receive them, share revenue with the city, and bring emissions and congestion to 0 . Pipedream will enable a more circular economy and make delivery greener, cheaper, and much more accessible.
The US is expecting to have 40% of its traffic dedicated to delivery by 2030, we hope to bring that traffic underground.
Garrett McCurrach, CEO of Pipedream, said in the press release:
Pipedream is about embracing innovation to put the needs of communities first, with this first real-world installation we have proven that underground delivery is not only possible today but easy to retrofit.
Underground delivery feels like something just teleported into your living room, and thanks to the leadership of Peachtree Corners in pushing forward and implementing smart city world-first technologies and infrastructure, this is a reality today. We’re excited for people to experience that here at the Curiosity Lab, and are planning to bring it to many more cities over the next couple of years.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
In the video demonstration by Pipedream, the sights and sounds made me reminisce of playing with model electric toy trains and those old slot racing cars. But that’s the thing: anyone who has ever played with those that the tiny piece of dust or debris that gets caught on the line will not it off the track.
When I see this, I can just think of the plethora of reasons this is going to embarrassingly fail. I mean, what happens if, God forbid, human error happens (like it always does), and the cart gets stuck or falls off the track because a part fails, the line was connected improperly, soot and dirt falls on the line, the weight distribution is off, a winter vortex comes in and the ground freezes and messes up the temperature gauges. Or, better yet, what happens when an animal such as mouse, rabbit, mole, groundhog, gopher, and other bugs decide to make a nest for themselves down there? What then, does a city worker have to rip apart the land and dig a tunnel, cut open the piping to alleviate the problem?
I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
Proverbs 8:12
Definitely ZERO wisdom and prudence here, that’s for sure! Oh, silly me and how dare I use the old noggin: I should stop thinking and just do it because we can!
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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That woman in the first video will FOR SURE accept the Mark of the Beast. Just sayin’ . . .
LOL..and sigh…Born Again. As I was cringing because I hate the way that particular class of people speak & gesture. ‘I feel like’….what ever happened to declarative sentences stating fact. Gone with the whirlwind…. Anyways, my husband said, I don’t know where that woman’s from, but it ain’t Georgia. I’ve heard Georgians speak! California maybe. One of those transplants like those flooding Tennessee and Texas, probably….bringing their problems with them. Then he said that the Pipedream video was fake & a prototype like a lot of the material handling tech training stuff as the developers have their ‘pipedreams’ disconnected from the real world. I don’t know, but he’s Mr. Skeptic and looking up Peachtree Corners, GA and Pipedream as I type…lol.
So, it does check out. One mile developed so far. Wondering now what happens when one of those electric tote transporter’s batteries catch fire like we’ve been seeing happen with the electric cars. Will half the town have their pickup hubs shooting out flames while the fire department stands around wringing its hands & unsure what to do like is happening with such fires now, or, say, what happened in East Palestine, Ohio?
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The other thing about those batteries is cost….as well as sourcing the raw materials. Bye-Bye mountain in Maine. And, we’re reading & hearing more and more about these ‘progressive’ folks buying those things, having a minor malfunction or accident involving the battery or case, & being faced with replacing the battery at a cost several thousand dollars more than what they paid for the car, & probably financed & still owe for!
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I know that the goal is to dumb down and nail down to their own little fifteen minute world what people they deem worthy of being left to live, & to take away liberty and mobility…even life, from the rest. But they’re going to have to overcome some of those things first, and the easy-money gubmint money grants are about done as they collapse the old America with the worst parts of it, traitors and corporatist cronies, globalist manipulators tied to Rome, still left.
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Even if they accomplish it, like Jacob said: it’s not going to be what they ‘imagine’ or what they ‘feel like’ it’s going to be. For those they allow to live for the time being, it’s going to be back to the tenements & the company towns of old, & further: back to Roman European serfdom, only with more depersonalization & real social isolation, & no spiritual hope but the idolatrous fake the masters & ‘gods’ craft for those they deem lesser ‘evolved’, less worthy of survival save for what ‘value’ they can derive out of their bodies & raw material.
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Sick. And folks like that real estate agent & others compromised, dumbed down and demoralized to the hilt trained to mindlessly jump through hoops and feed their flesh with ‘experience’ while their soul shrivels away to nothing & their spirit remains dead in trespasses and sins, doing ‘what’s necessary in the real world’ as they say, & to get their ‘piece of the pie’ & a leg up on the pyramid….don’t even see it. Probably including those ‘optimists’ and ‘innovators’ of aptly named ‘Pipedream’.
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Load it up and smoke a little more.
KD, (do you mind if I refer to you as KD? – apologies, if not)
Peachtree Corners is approximately 14 miles from my house. I live in Atlanta (proper – as in, really, not like folks who say they do, but live within 120 miles – lol) At any rate, Peachtree Corners IS nice, although The Forum, of which she speaks, has been hit HARD from the c-19 scam and the stores are over half vacated with more currently closing. Stalwart stores.
Her little dream of the ‘perfect’ place to be will soon have no where to go, except for perhaps some of the restaurants, and even those are sparsely patronized anymore due to economic strains.
Yes, there are some super lovely homes there – no doubt about it. Apparently though, that too is a facade. Otherwise the stores wouldn’t be closing, nor the restaurants suffering. You can only balance on a beam for so long, before you fall off.
The majority of folks in the ex-urban areas from Atlanta – and that’s what Peachtree Corners is, want to live large (appearance-wise) when they can ill afford it. It’s a house of cards, if you will. I’d say the percentage of those that live that way comfortably is perhaps 6 or 7 percent.
Her personal bubble is likely to be popped soon, if it hasn’t been already.
They gave away their intention point blank. “Delivery of a week’s worth of groceries.” That’s it, nothing more, nothing less. Those totes are sized for groceries, not for anything we want to buy or need. Tenements with lipstick. The words sustainable, equitable, smart are now words that make me cringe; it’s a shame they have destroyed real words with real meaning by their lies. What’s behind those lies is exactly what our God warned us about in the Olivet discourse. May He continue to keep his angels girded round us for protection through these storms and dumpster fires.