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Re:Waze Carpool by Cshelton on Thursday January 25, 2018 @10:36AM (#16231478)
Now that I think about it, Amazon would be perfect to do it.

I can't remember the last Amazon package I got that wasn't on of their contract, on-demand drivers. Amazon already gives them packages and the optimal route to take and a pretty good estimate of how long that'll take the driver. They could use that and have the driver pick up/drop off people along their route and know a pretty good time frame the driver would arrive.

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Re:Waze Carpool by IncRnd on Thursday January 25, 2018 @12:14PM (#16232476)
> I can't remember the last Amazon package I got that wasn't on of their contract, on-demand drivers.

At the moment, there are 10 Amazon packages not yet delivered to my house - 4 haven't updated the computer with their shipping information, 2 UPS, 1 USPS, 2 AMZL US, and 1 from a Foreign Post.

> Amazon already gives them packages and the optimal route

Optimized not Optimal route.

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Re:Waze Carpool by apcragg on Thursday January 25, 2018 @11:46AM (#16232209)
Optimal route or optimized route? I was under the impression that calculating an optimal route was NP-Hard and not feasible to do at scale.
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