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Adopt autonomous vehicles in the supply chain

Adopt autonomous vehicles in the supply chain

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Adopt autonomous vehicles in the supply chain

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- Have you ever flown an aerial drone or ridden to work in a self-driving car? Well, neither have I. And for most people autonomous vehicles aren't part of our day to day lives, yet. But for supply chains, autonomous vehicles and drones are already doing a lot of work behind the scenes. In this video, we'll start with some basics about autonomous vehicles and then we'll examine where AVS fit into our digital transformation. An autonomous vehicle is a mobile robot that can travel without a human giving it real time instructions. Sometimes they're programmed to follow a specific route and sometimes they can just choose a route on their own. And many of them can communicate with a human operator and update their route during a journey. Now, when it comes to drones, we usually think of unmanned aerial vehicles, but there are also drones that operate on land and move across the water. In many cases these drones can move…

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