Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781259667473
Author: William J Stevenson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 6.3, Problem 2.1RQ
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The future roads are expected to be populated with self- driving roadways. They will be equipped with cameras, GPS, and other facilities ensuring that they operate with little or no human assistance. It will be able to contact with other such vehicles to make driving easier.
There are issues that are still to be figured out such as how to keep the sensors from accumulating dust or snow so that they could function without any hindrance. The vehicles must be able to cope with the climatic conditions and to exist with the human driven vehicles.
To determine: The advantages of self-driven vehicles over drones for package delivery.
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Operations Management
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