Editorial

I'm getting mixed messages about “last-mile” mobility these days. And I'm not sure whether I should be interchangeably using the terms last-mile and micromobility, but as is the case with the broad sector of driving automation, it looks like micromobility, last-mile - and the big Kahuna, SAE Level 4 driving - are working through a bit of reality check. More critical sources might call it a fall from grace.

Editor-in-chief Lindsay Brooke's entertaining coverage of Brooklyn Pizza's mostly positive experience with food delivery by robot (see our cover story beginning on pg. 6) seems to demonstrate that last-mile automation such as bot-delivered pizza and other automated-delivery services can work in certain environments. But I think the realities - and limitations - injected by operational design domain (ODD) are beginning to become more obvious.