The robots aren’t anywhere near ready to take over, but year by year, we creep ever so closer to an at-least partially driverless future.
At the end of last year the global autonomous last-mile delivery market was expected to reach a total value of nearly $13 billion. By 2030, that number is expected to increase more than seven-fold to $90.21 billion, according to a report titled “2022 Autonomous Last Mile Delivery Market,” published by Allied Market Research. The report projects that North America will be the most lucrative region as autonomous vehicle adoption ramps up through the rest of this decade. Autonomous food and beverage delivery will be among the fastest growing sectors, second only to retail.