Comments on: UPS Trying to Eliminate Left Turns

By: Rob D

Rob D — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:09:11 +0000

So…what if it takes too many left turns for UPS to get to my house???

By: Rob D

Rob D — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:06:33 +0000

I wonder if the RIAA attorney fees are cheaper than the lost profit of record sales because of file sharing…hhhmmm…me thinks not!!

By: sky

sky — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:22:32 +0000

@Larry – Sometimes mine have done that too, I think its more of a spam-control thing thats done automatically than the authors picking and choosing which posts are shown.

By: Olivier

Olivier — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:21:17 +0000

Guess they’ll be spending all those savings in changing left tires more often as the vehicle will mostly be making right turns (external tyres suffer more wear and tear)

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:53:01 +0000

Hmm, my comment got moderated… I guess you didn’t like what I said ;)

By: Flower

Flower — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:09:20 +0000

Is this for real? I thought this was a joke!

By: Eric Cranston

Eric Cranston — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:42:47 +0000

From what I understand UPS has GPS in all their vehicles right? Seems like they could track how long it takes to go somewhere on different routes at different times and figure out statistically what would always be the fastest possible route to go on overall. Based off of previous data.

Really doesn’t seem like it’d be too hard mathematically if you were getting all the data. Maybe a 400 hour job to build the system or so.

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 03:50:40 +0000

I thought this was really, really old news, on the order of a few years old? I’ve seen it makes the rounds the past few days, and thought, “Didn’t this make the rounds a few YEARS ago?” But hey, the more people know about it, the better informed they are about the business world around them. Kudos UPS!

By: Mikey

Mikey — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:02:57 +0000

Dan – Single Handedly Powering UNEASY

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:04:51 +0000

Nice one, Chad.

This is pretty cool to hear something like this is being done.