I guess latency isn’t an issue when you have bandwidth / throughput to make up for it? Not for kebabs though (pleases to see that as one of the trial businesses in MK, hah!)

Overnight silent electric delivery with custom delivery machines has historical precedent of course:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_float

For customers, latency matters a lot.

Being able to skip a delivery driver tip is a significant incentive.

would they not be just vandalised?

Depends where; the subscription bicycles have worked in a lot of places; but here (Manchester) a lot ended up in the canal. Probably the same.

Maybe initially. Eventually, no. We don't destroy other people's cars for the most part.

> Maybe initially. Eventually, no. We don't destroy other people's cars for the most part.

I recall as a kid seeing so many more trucks vandalized with graffiti than nowadays.

Part of that is probably racism, etc is going down, it's becoming more normal to be different. Maybe?

Maybe these rovers have cameras that can record the vandals for later identification.

Don't they have camera's?

That's due to the mass and power budgets for a Mars rover though, not some fundamental aspect of rovers.

To add to that, there are electric hobby RC cars for sale with enough power to hit 70mph stock.

I had such a thing once. It was so much fun. A friend of mine had some others. Oh boy - what a past time.

I think it’s silly to scratch build rovers. Something like a motorized Renault Twizy would be a better fit.

Surely it's more silly to drive around an empty 500 kg motorized cage for humans just to deliver <1 kg of food?

Doesn’t that happen already? Sure, there’s a human, but he’s dead weight.

But faster driving and more compatible with roads