UPS tests tiny battery-powered cycles in NYC
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2022
- The sleek four-wheeled carts look familiar enough, but not even UPS knows precisely how to describe them.
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Imagine if you finally get promoted to driver and this is your truck
its new york city, look at that traffic. it's not like you're going anywhere in your unairconditioned truck. if enough people switched to smaller vehicles the continuous gridlock would solve itself. this would fit 3 in a single lane. Plus, you probably don't need a license for these so they can hire anyone.
I wouldn't care if I was getting paid the same money
Lol
LMAO im crying over hear lol
This how they gone start you off 🤣😂 or when you get on probation
the helmet is to prevent brain damage during a mugging
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Facts bro
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The only purpose of the pedals is so that it is legally allowed to go between cars and use bike lanes. I doubt the energy provided by the pedals is even a few percent in a typical day.
honestly, I dont see why this thing is legal. It's more than half a ton with a driver and can easily kill a cyclist. The whole point of the bike lane is for safe organic traffic,
While this is true, I hope it doenst kill the idea . Cause the smaller the truck the better imo.
@@maaz322 it’s going 5 miles an hour
@@maaz322 Exactly, pretty sure bike lanes weren't meant for these types of vehicles.
@@jf5357 They said 15mph.
Now the UPS can say they "attempted to deliver" your package in style.
He laughed when he said “when the delivery driver pedals “ even he feels bad 😂
imagine being so out of shape. 🤣You must not know that there are already delivery bikes with no electric motor and they do just fine.
I mean, it's new york city. With these they'll actually get places instead of just sitting in traffic all day. look like you can get 3 of them in one lane so if enough people switched to smaller vehicles think of the use you could get out of the same size streets. people would actually get places!
@@0xsergy but there goes the overtime 😪😔😔😱😱😱
@@0xsergy you’ve clearly never been to NYC - have a seat 🪑
Definitely did 🤣🤣
For all the people saying these are dangerous for the driver, you haven’t seen how “fast” traffic moves in the city
Forreal, especially in Manhattan where they are talking about.
You can put walk a car in NYC
Would help traffic and these bikes if the city took biking infrastructure seriously
crushed is crushed
Literally a stand still you can walk faster
A ups and fed ex bicycle truck crashed earlier today. Both companies are now FED UP
WOW
If another car just slightly bump it on the side the whole thing will tip over. It bob side to side even when driving straight.
The amount of storage make sense for part timers and people who pay extra for fast shipping.
Good thing that if you hit a mail man you go to jail for years
Same with any "cycle" but there are plenty of delivery drivers on bikes and motorcycles in cities already with the same risks. You also have to think, those batteries are heavy, and are probably on the bottom like every electric vehicles, so it has a low center of gravity.
Also the weight will vary depending on how full it is with packages, when it’s completely full it’s probably very unstable, also how many packages can you fit in there
@@drummersnare6276 Same thing could be said about Britan's double decker buses. They are more stable than you think. Plus all the weight when empty is on the bottom, the top weighs nothing comparatively.
Easy. Ban cars inside the city
People commenting on how dangerous this is for the driver don’t realize how huge the biking community in NY already is. This minor addition won’t make an impact.
But how big is it in winter and in the middle of the day of summer? Do they have windshields to block the cool wind in the middle of a hot day? Do the bikers wear UPS clothes too or just under armor?
These things were not considered.
@@TheMilhouseExperience They bike in the winter in Finland, it's a bit colder up there.
@@TheMilhouseExperience I mean most delivery trucks don't have ac. So I don't see that being a big problem.
The biking community shrinks a little every time a drunk slams into one while running a red light trying to sling drugs across the city of NY. Im pretty sure this quad will not provide proficient protection when involved in a collision when compared to the typical UPS truck. Judge as you will. But an open cab, and far less protection does in fact pose more danger to the user when any form of accident with speed occurs.
That not true. You sound so confident lol.
hope no one here believes this is actually to "save the planet "
it's to save money on gas and getting faster deliveries at the cost of the drivers safety...but that doesn't sound to great so let's go with save the planet
Where are they getting the power to charge those e cargo bikes? They're burning fossil fuels at a higher rate to produce that electricity.
If the oceans were rising then the banks wouldn’t invest money into beachfront property
@@MOSTGHALONE partly, but it’s mainly to save money for UPS and deliver packages faster. 0 regard for driver safety
@@MOSTGHALONE What is with this nonsense. The gas burnt at power companies is a LOT more efficient than those that are done in a car. That tiny engine in your car is a lot less efficient.
And even though they said he had a range of 65km, if he peddles, he could go a full 100km or more on just that charge, and that would have cost him LESS than a liter of gas needed converted into energy. Now, had he taken that truck they usually drive, it would have cost 15 liters. There isn't even a comparison here.
@@Simqer
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Imagine what it will be like in winter? The open drivers compartment offers almost no protection from rain or cold winds.
If you thought UPS theft was on the rise before…..this bumps it up a notch for sure!
Exactly. They are making it easier for criminals. Scary.
U know dam well it's gonna expand so much to wear Fedex is gonna get 1, Post offices gonna get 1 & I can assume Amazon can just buy one off of Amazon. 🤪🤭
Exactly. Common sense doesn't exist anymore.
What could possibly go wrong? smh
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I’d rather ride on these to deliver packages to farmers. Than ride it in the Bronx.
Looks impressive but they're more vulnerable than these vehicles than they are in their regular truck
Something I thought. Easier to Rob
15 km cross wind ....
Yeah. This will put an end to porch pirates! They just take the whole bike!
They better not drive that into ANY housin project Lmfao😂
Also thought this
I go from watching the video about the young man who died from heat exhaustion in his UPS truck from no AC. Then I see this where UPS makes their workers pedal...this speaks volumes. Modern day slavery..
This looks awesome but I'm worried about the driver's safety.
Can't wait for winter... Muhahaha. All of your e'bikes are MINE!!! 😄
Better than a reg bike + he has a helmet (hehe)
If anything this is safer than bicycles… also I’m sure they’ll be put away during winter months,, maybe they need some amber lights added just for safety and visibility, but this also reduces carbon foot print and it’s a cheaper alternative during this high gas price crisis!
@@VZYBOI it actually doesn’t reduce carbon foot print at all.
The electricity it’s running off of is still coal produced, and the materials needed to make batteries are difficult and expensive to mine. The only positive it brings is it cleans up the air in the city.
The most carbon friendly vehicles are actually hybrids, then followed by gas, then electric.
Safer than a regular UPS truck that can get to be 150F in the back or used by the police as a bullet shield
Anybody that drives in NYC, Knows how useful this Little UPS bike will be, Especially with the parking situation.
guessing they double park
Agreed but how many boxes can actually fit in that thing lol
they should pack that into a real truck and deploy it for clustered streets
Yes, and you clearly do not.
@@afcgeo882 You clearly don’t have any idea what you’re speaking about, I work & drive in the city daily.
And the cart holds 3 and maybe even 4 packages before it has to travel 30 miles to get more packages to deliver.
Smaller parcels only, goofball!
You've never seen a ups truck meet other ups trucks huh?
Don't speak on what you don't know , you just look like a fool.
and he has to pedal the dam thing
@@Threelegs94 They will likely have nearby relay stores and trucks to pick up from.
@@danpaguirigan315 bruh, that would make their jobs more difficult and how many relay stores do you think they would have smh
and yet the UPS executives fly in private jets using thousands of gallons of fuel every time they go anywhere outside of their city, oh but here they're "saving the environment" haha
This not about saving the environment. It's about saving money while delivering packages faster. They just try and sell it as helping the environment to aid in public opinion.
Looks like the Perfect transportation for Slave Wagie, they call it the Wagie Mobile, it alerts your boss right away if you take a bathroom break, built in electric shock when you are too slow also
Now both cyclists and drivers can both experience ny traffic and suffer together!
Exactly
Cyclists will never experience traffic 😈
I can tell you don't bike
@@gtctoronto5213 Cyclists will experience their bones shattering when I T Bone one of them for running a red light for the millionth time
they are already overwhelmed and now they have to pedal their shift, give some of the office staff a bicycle and let them deliver packages in 100 degree heat, you aught to be ashamed, i am excited to hear about the ups skateboards that can only make right turns
They don't have to pedal, dumbass.
Agreed
🎶It’s electric…boogie woogie woogie🎶
but this is way cheaper. they can hire more people and have more of these "e-trucks" on the road for the same cost as one truck and the fuel/maintenance associated. Add in gridlock and that real truck probably doesn't get very far in NYC anyway. In a way this is creating jobs because they'll need mechanics for these as well as extra drivers.
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How's it handle wind & toppling? I'd expect the batteries low hung would alleviate this to some degree but it's a concern...
Door to cargo should be proximity tap key rather than the classic key and lock as it's slow and will wear pretty fast in this use...
Apart from that a great idea / execution. Ideal for flat / congested NY! :)
My guess is that any wind coming from the side in excess of 15 or 20 mph would tip it right over.
The pedals are to bypass the law - it makes it a "motor assisted cycle" - that's my guess....
Yep, strictly a loophole.
Definitely
Too dangerous especially in NY with the massive criminal activities it’s a easy target.
Bro exactly glad you agree
@@EldePHX crime isnt a real if you ignore it
Exactly. Too easy to just hold them up, and easily clear all the items.
These are e-bikes, well e-cargo bikes, and are used in some cities in England, Netherlands, and Canada. I'm excited to see them in the U.S., as many neighborhoods don't really have the room for big trucks to navigate. Especially in congested cities, this is awesome
It’s gey asf tho!!!
No...there not in Canada.
Have you see been to Toronto⁶
They have been used in NYC for a long time now, just not for this specific purpose. It’s not new here
I drive a vehicle like this in the Netherlands, but its wider and already if you got 60+ parcels its gonna be barely enough space, sometimes I got to leave large parcels behind.
@@t4squared it’s not a competition m8
Rearranging deck chairs on Titanic will always be a good idea for some people .
That looks like it'd be a lot of fun to drive on 90+ degree summer days, below freezing winter days and windy/rainy spring/fall days.
Hope it has four wheel drive come January 🤭
I pray for God's protection over this hard working UPS Drivers; there jobs are vulnerable enough.
The ppl at UPS have lost their minds. If one of those trucks hit one of the massive potholes on these NYC streets, that's a wrap for the truck and the driver. Lawsuits will abound.
these workers are human with families, not herd of ox
@@kimalonzo4912 im pretty sure they'd see a pot hole and avoid it. I rarely hear cyclists complaining about falling off due to pot holes
Automation will not replace city delivery jobs anytime soon. There is too much random vehicle/pedestrian traffic and obstacles like stairs and doorways.
Praying won't help, God is too busy answering everybody's wishes.
3ft long? Thats the only time ive ever heard a man underestimated length
These lil vehicles are adorable! Perfect for making deliveries in tight spaces, though the "cycle" part seems like just a technicality. In Toronto, Fed Ex has started using long-john style cargo bikes for deliveries.
It's all funny games now wait till winter comes and see who's going to wanting to be riding one of those little things with no doors. 🤣🤣
Unless you drive something with tank treads, your vehicle has just as hard of a time when it snows and the roads aren't clear. Don't pretend like snow isn't also a problem with the big trucks. That's why we push the snow to the side of the road so people can drive through. The alternative would be UPS doing deliveries on foot because pedestrians are the only form of private transportation that isn't hindered by snow
I can't imagine how dangerous those are for the driver.
Union, City plus Civil Suit Against UPS in the making!
Can’t be more dangerous than the bicycles already on those NYC streets
@@xtrey19x way more dangerous way worse of a target or blowing uo
Notice the driver had a bike helmet?
@@Commentsofthemonth what??? Blowing up??
I've been with UPS for several years and I can tell you this will only fly for two things: extremely developed areas where the conventional package cars have trouble getting around (thus why they're trying them in Manhattan) and for getting early AM next day packages out in other markets. The real national market for these will be those next day packages. Remember, getting those out can frequently mean ignoring the well planned and very efficient route to specifically get those next days out in time.
Aside from those two limited cases, no way. They're way too small, it would take a stupid amount of time for the driver to get hub to the route area and back again and again. Doesn't matter if they hold 400 lbs, most packages are more bulky than they are heavy. It's more about space than weight. That's why package cars are so huge.
I can see them upgrading more employees to, "driver", newer drivers getting these e-bike routes, or even having a new category of driver so that they don't have the pay driver rates. It's easier to fill these up with small light packages and then use the trucks for heavy/bulky packages.
@@CHA0SBLEEDS You forget one thing, it's a union job - and we're teamsters. Can't create a new job without negotiating it into the contract. Limited capacity to create a new route type. They're likely doing this testing both to evaluate the vehicle and to start seeing what the union might be open to showing in the next contract.
@@swbigfan1 Yep I worked @ UPS for 10+ years, when I was a general Labourer (in Canada) we were able to go with Drivers all the time to deliver packages especially if we wanted extra hours (we were limited to 5 hour shifts, but could do double even trip shifts as long as we had 8-12 hours of rest between our scheduled shifts).
As General Labourer I was also given many jobs and different titles. Even things such as Trainer, Assistant supervisor, Package Deliverer etc, as long as I wasn't driving a truck I could go on routes with drivers and go to houses etc.
A friend of mine was also able to do various driving tasks without being paid as a driver, and even had a few titles created for him without negotiating it with the union. They just offered him overtime and 12 hour shifts. So every day he got 5 hours @ normal pay and 7 hours overtime.
@@CHA0SBLEEDS Maybe union rules are more lax in Canada or maybe the examples you saw were just stuff that was done under the radar, don't know for sure. However I know when they wanted to start having some utility drivers (delivery driver who didn't have a fixed route but rather does sick day & vacation coverage) who'd drive if needed and "other work as assigned" if not needed they had to negotiate a new job category into our most recent contract. Based on that I'm pretty sure that they'd need a contract update if they were going to start a company wide deployment of these.
Also, as far as your friend and driving without being paid driver wage. That wouldn't fly in the US, you need a different class of drivers license (Commercial Drivers License or CDL). Getting that is part of the new driver training.
Mostly I'm guessing this is down to national differences in labor law. For example, no union member can ever hold any type of supervisor position and sups do all training (as you mentioned being an assistant supervisor & trainer) in the US. Basically no union member can EVER be in charge of another union member. We don't even have assistant supervisors. There are PT supervisors, a FT supervisor who is over several PT supervisors, and managers over them (who were rarely see in the Hub). Going to one of those positions is an interview process instead of a seniority based bid as all moves between union positions must be. Then if hired as a sup you leave the union, have a different benefits package, different vacation schedule, and are partially salaried instead of strictly hourly (PT sups are paid for 27.5 hours per week unless they work more than that).
Just the fact that you talked about being GIVEN different titles is very telling, as a union position in the US I only change positions when I want to and then only through a seniority based bid process. My job performance and qualifications have no pay in the process. Available positions are posted, you sign up if you want it, and after 7 days they take the listing down and offer the position to the one who signed up with the most seniority.
@@CHA0SBLEEDS Also, the OT for anything over 5 hours in a day (for part timers) is standard for us. They don't offer you the OT, they decide if they are allowing doubled on a given shift, if they are then anyone from other shifts can double and everyone gets the OT after 5 hours.
(1:34) I think he meant to say 3 meters not 3 feet long. 3 meters is is 9.8 feet.
I've seen those things from ups but also from other companies in Hamburg, Germany. The drivers looked like they had fun 😊
Now imagine if NYC leaders started pushing more bike lanes that are closed off and larger instead of increasing the amount of car lanes.
bikers dont use bike lanes if u didnt know.
@@AQW. they would if they weren’t so dangerously and bad design. We should just get rid of cars anyways
@@AQW. I do know very well. We wouldn’t have to do that if we had safe and designated bike lanes, that are obstructed by parked cars trucks and trash
@@DYKTTATUOBLVD exactly
At first I was thinking that it might be a bad thing if companies start putting thousands of vehicles on the bike lanes making them congested just like roads but your comment made me realize that it just shows there's more demand for bike lanes and the city needs to prioritize it more. Aspecially if the money is in the bike lanes.
I’m curious as to where these delivery carts will be dispatched from, it honestly couldn’t be the UPS warehouses since it can only go 15 mph on battery alone. Maybe smaller hubs or stores?
I was wondering the same thing, but I assume they deploy out of the rear of a full-sized delivery van. Good question in any case.
I personally have tried this myself in the UK and i actually like it.
Can't wait for the hood to get ahold of a few of these, see em on the bridges painted in days I bet
just enter a no go zone on certain zipcodes.
Give the drivers Kevlar vests and some bullet resistant windshields
or, you know, just gun control laws in surrounding states so that NYC and Chicago don't have easy access to legal guns one border away
I can't imagine getting mugged in gridlocked NYC traffic in your UPS kart.
Dude gets yanked out "Open up the lockers. Now!"
1:35 wow guys it's only 3 feet long, AMAZING! 🤦♂️
That is the quality of WABC New York, most popular and worst channel in NYC...
UPS drivers never skipping leg day 😂
UPS keeping up their tradition of aesthetically pleasing vehicles I see
These were showcased and used in Expo 2020.
Its weird seeing them on public streets.
It’s just like a freight auto rickshaw.
I like to see how far these vehicles go in the New England winter.
Probably would be seasonal
@@kendra.achildress5210 yes certainly is
I think those are meant for cities like New York
Use some critical thinking skills brother
@@BobMarley-uz9mn Yes, and NYC is a half hour commute to the outskirts of “New England”.
The traffic lines were created and paint-marked for a reason. These UPS vehicles disregard the traffic rules in the same way that some motorcyclists do. The proof is right here, in this video.
It's an E-bike dummy as in 'electrically assisted bicycle' and not a Motorcycle so the regulations are different.
Motorcycles are also allowed to split the lane here. Whether you like it or not
@@maxmotors9497 - - So, by "here", you mean NYC ? The worst thing in NYC is fully reserving a line for buses. That is usually one of the 2 available lines. Then, you get a fine if you use that line when the other is stuck, on really clogged streets. This is how I got a fine in 2012, and I think that was the last fine that I got since then.
-Fed Ex Employee
Vehicles in the bike lane are also disregarding traffic laws...
that is 100 percent gonna flip over on day 2
It's not the size it's how you penetrate those small openings!
Just imagine... with all the weight it's transporting and suddenly... a sharp turn!
It’s battery powered, lower center of gravity.
@@aboveaero Exactly, the battery is where all the weight is, which is why it's on the bottom.
@@BritainRitten Even more so, it would make sense they place heavier packages at the bottom for obvious reasons.
It goes slow enough that sudden turns are practically not an issue. A sudden gust of wind though is a different story.
It'll tip over in a truck too if you drive like an idiot.
The guy was "VISITING" not "VISTING" and it's 3 feet wide not 3 feet long. What Kook writes this stuff ?!? Also that thing just ate a red light while turning left.
These are a good idea where a city has micro vehicles, such as Tokyo. But in Manhattan, with all the large delivery trucks and cabs, probably not good to have such small delivery vehicles...
I can just see the accidents now with them being wedged in-between cars
Excellent weight distribution. Will the next NYC game be UPS tipping?
18% gratuity will be added to all UPS deliveries
🦦 Do these folks realize that you meant …. The Actual Physical “Tipping” over of these “Quads”!? I mean Basic Physics tells me that it would be a Breeze (👈🏿 See what I did there!😏)
Batteries are heavier than packages.
Now the streets won't be blocked by a few trucks but by a few hundred tiny vehicles. Only this city would give the companies incentives for such a thoughtless program.
How do you write d u m b b I t c h nicely?
At least their won’t be any in the Bronx.
My cities national mail/parcel service has been using 400 Paxter electric quads since 2016. They're registered for road usage but also approved for driving on the footpath so they can deliver mail straight to the mail box like they did on bicycles.
wow this is some serious truck hauling
Wow! Those look similar to the vehicles in India known as Rickshaws. In Sri Lanka they are called Tuk Tuks. Wow! I like the UPS ones better. LOL!
Keep it in midtown Manhattan, if you come to queens, Brooklyn, bronx,Staten you will be robbed
Help me understand..... extra work before they start work. So they have to pedal to their route then go and walk and deliver packages while walking up stairs, hills and whatever the landscape thier route is? Then pedal back to the job? Cuz 15 mph is not going to cut it when there is a time constraint and quota for delivering X amount of packages a day!
Lastly they do not even look safe. If they are unfortunately hit by a car or another larger size vehicle, it's over! At least with the bigger trucks they do have some measure of protection.
What am I missing? 🤔
Imagine how long it’ll take to get your packages 🗑🤬 and not safe for the driver💔
This is for the deep city. It would only work within a certain proximity
This is great! You’re getting paid to workout, lift weights, be outside all day, drive around and see the city, etc! You can have some massive quads after a month of doing this. Love it.
Depending on how much extra help the electric battery gives, they need not necessarily pedal all that hard at all.
Working for UPS is hard enough but now you have to pedal also
have you ever been to NY? it's humid/hot as heck in the summer and cold as heck in the winter. I aint biking for my job in that weather
The main reason I believe they use quad(?)cycles is because having pedals makes it under the same laws of bicycles instead of motor vehicles.
This comment was typed by someone who never worked these types of jobs before lmao
I'm sure the cyclists who regularly use the bike lanes most love this! Let's take a space for citizens on self powered vehicles and let delivery companies muck it up. Great idea!
Better than getting around doubleparked UPS trucks everywhere. I don't mind sharing bike infrastructure with vehicles that can't kill me.
Ppl will always complain. Ppl can take the car lane if they don’t want to be behind one.
This cyclists don’t even use the bike lanes in nyc.they zigzag between cars and pedestrians while the bike lane is there. Bike lanes on n nyc are a waste of money specially if bikers don’t follow the rules.
@@CannedFishFiles you say that but what about when there's a traffic jam in the bike lane from the FedEx, Amazon, UPS and Grocery Delivery "Bike SUV's".... It's not just gonna be UPS that does this.... Plus it's not gonna fully replace the trucks... They'll still be there too...
F**K your bike lane
UPS can’t afford AC but they can afford this. Right…
So now, not only do they expect their UPS drivers to run in and out of easy bake ovens carrying heavy package providing not even water, but they expect them to pedal all that too.
Mail services in my city in sweden use these, albeit a bit bigger, more like a small golf cart. But only electric tough, no pedling, really agile vehicles tbh
Most golf carts have engines they're just so quiet you wouldn't know it till it runs out of fuel but you knew that..
If I have a car crash with this. I’m suing the company. The driver is so rushing
Making 80k a year with pension, free full health benefits for family, paid vacation with no college education to drive those things around and delivering packages. If I didn't have career and no college degree, I would be working at UPS just to be driver. They promote based on seniority so as long as your there long enough, your pretty much guaranteed that job. And that company keeps growing. I own shares which I bought at around 80$ and it more then doubled in couple of years with high dividend pay outs.
college degree?? Lol ok!!
Would be nice if everyone started getting smaller vehicles in general. Not many people actually need to be in large trucks and SUVs at least not in the city cores.
Amazon needs to do this too.
You'll need so many of these... My Amazon order won't fit in one of those most days 😂😂😂
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95% of package deliveries in Manhattan are already made by bike or by foot. This isn't actually a significant change from the norm.
Which borough are you in?
People that get annoyed by these monsters splitting lanes like a bicycle are going to tip them over for the fun of it.
Won't work, for UPS, maybe the post office because of letters, small envelopes and tiny boxes, most stuff UPS delivers is big and heavy and people usually receive multiple packages and there's not much room for a dolly cart.
Not gonna help when you have NO DOORS and the neighbor’s dog is a German shepherd.
It's widely used in Asia and Europe. Hopefully it will work out in the US.
Well a small city in america is the size of a small country their sometimes
Imagine being hit with high impact by the side. It would be like tipping a cereal box
Hence why this would only be used for those conditions where you literally can't get going faster than 15 miles per hour because there's so much traffic
The best way to get thru any traffic is going between the cars. This is such a great invention: a bike narrow enough to fit in the bike lane while still able to carry some packages.
until every local business starts trying to cheat traffic by doing this, and then traffic ends up even worse than it was before.
You don't want to be riding that at night in New York, or even during the day in some neighborhoods.
Will they still be making only right turns like they used to with their regular delivery trucks?
As the bike makes a left right there on the video (twice the same cut) and you were blind to both... must be a Trumper ignorant to any facts even ones they can see.
I did the seasonal UPS thing. Those delivery guys will love it from the aspect of not having a truck load of packages to deliver.
They will be double handling packages now, from the center to a normal truck, to this bike thing.. And repeat
Why? They’ll just need to do 20 trips a day.
@@afcgeo882 This will be much more efficient in a place like NY. Dealing with traffic.
@@merovingian688 You obviously don’t live in NYC.
@@afcgeo882 Look. Corporate has made the decision and it’s final. Now pay your taxes so the power grid can be upgraded before more blackouts.
why does it look like this was recorded in 2001
Pretty cool, especially hard to get places it makes sense.
They’re tired of tickets 🤣🤣
They should make a gigantic air cannon at the distribution center that safely shoots the packages to specific addresses or drop locations for offices and as they descend a parachute slows them down.
I think some cities used to have a pneumatic tube mail system.
i have a better idea instead: use the cannon to shoot people around the city, they can ride the parachute down then.
looks neat for food delivery also
These seem terribly dangerous for actual cyclists in bike lanes. Imagine colliding with one of these carrying 400lbs of cargo.
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do you think there are bike lane crossings where bikes run red lights and can't see one another?
That's what I'm saying!
@@jasongooden917 it's not even funny because you obviously don't ride bikes in New York.
Not sure why the cargo matters, everything in the street is not good to run into.
Lmfao! They rock! Also, when I’m walking around, if I see these, it will give me something else to chuckle at n photograph. The wee nyc vehicles r gloriously hilarious. Love them. (The odd golf cart looking things)
Is UPS SERIOUS?! They want to have drivers drive those narrow trucks with those small azz wheels on the busted up roads of NYC? There are potholes bigger than those wheels in these NYC streets. I hope UPS is properly insured bc if they put drivers in these trucks then I foresee many lawsuits!!! That truck looks like a glamorized scooter! 😳🙄
That dude smoked a blunt before the interview 😂😂
If this cuts down on the number of double-parking delivery vehicles in Manhattan, it'll be worthwhile. UPS already has on-foot messengers (who don't drive a motor vehicle) delivering a huge volume of small packages in cities - mostly stuff that was shipped via air (i.e. Next Day Air, 2nd Day Air).
I work for UPS there is no on foot messengers. They deliver out of a truck and just park it.
@@Vageta2010 In my years at UPS, I went to two centers that delivered and picked-up only smalls, and those centers had no package cars. They had drivers (by job title) who walked from the center.
Maybe UPS stopped doing that.
UPS - "How can we make our drivers even LESS safe?" - "I know, let's put them in little UPS gocarts!"
Man, I'm all for "saving the planet", but this is THEE dumbest idea imaginable.
Why you think it's unsafe? Btw they're just testing it.
@@gabrielfrost9134 I think it's unsafe because I have two eyes that work lol
Someone else wrote what I was thinking...to paraphrase; once someone hits one of those gocarts with their car, that driver is done. Not to mention thieves must be licking their chops
If everyone had these you could get places in NYC instead of continuous gridlock. 3 fit in a single lane vs one car. The idea would be that once everyone switches to smaller stuff it gets safer for everyone involved(and just more efficient cause lugging around a ton of extra metal is just silly in a dense city)
@@0xsergy When you live like sardines in a can you can't expect elbow room.
Not UPS go carts!🤣🤣🤣🤣💀
i have an ebike a fraction of its weight and I packed it with an auxiliary batter to get twice the amount of mileage. I could imagine UPS could fit these with two auxiliary batters to increase the range by 80 miles. That would hold delivery for an entire shift without recharge. I think this is a genius idea
All depends how many miles your average route is.. guess why would you pay for more range when you don't use it
Batteries lose 50 to 70% range with a load or with cold weather.
How many packages do you think these can hold? Not too many.
That flat roof on top couldn't hold a solar panel or another battery ?
@@justalostsoul9509 A small solor panel would take days or weeks to rechard the battery.
Amazing! I can't wait for UPS to begin using these new vehicles to deliver my packages to the wrong house!
_Chicago needs some of these next._
I wonder how this tiny delivery truck will handle being hit by a larger vehicle 🤔
You’re right, let restrict private ownership of large vehicles in the city, no one needs a Ford F-150 in the middle of NYC, we encourage use of smaller cars and bikes while cutting down on the giant SUVs and Trucks that have no right to be in a city environment, that we we can also start cutting down on greenhouse gas emissions now that heavy vehicles that burn excessive gas are no longer idling in traffic
That’s very cool for a new UPS delivery cart, and the competitors will be following the suit, including the usps as more battery powered vehicles are becoming the permanent choices over gasoline.
There just charging off coal from the power grid lol. There only about 5% recyclable, an China the main producer of batteries and polluter of the world, dig ups 100s of millions of tons just to aquire a little of the rare material required to manufacture them. Not to mention the emission emitted by the giant machains digging ans transporting. Batteries also release emission just sitting. They lose 50 to 70% range in cold weather and with a load..but yall stay educated on the subject smdh.
@@mrrod3004 Shhh.. You will upset the sky screamers.
@@mrrod3004 New York doesn't use coal they get most of their power from Hydro/Nuclear/Renewables
@@trihard7323 incorrect. 90% is natural gas they only aquire 1% from renewables. where are they gonna build wind and solar forms in New York? That's an exceptional amount of power to run that city.
Wow. They should've had it when I worked at UPS late "80's
"I like the way it is" and they let that guy drive it 🤣