This is insane. Though to be fair, Amazon doesn't employ the drivers, subcontractors do. What Amazon does is completely direct their work. Amazon’s Cost Saving Routing Algorithm Makes Drivers Walk Into Traffic
If it were up to him, Mike said, he would never run across a highway with his arms full of packages. But the routing algorithm designed for its Flex app by Amazon's research scientists often makes it unavoidable, according to a source with direct knowledge of Amazon's routing algorithm. In North America and Europe, roughly 85,000 contracted delivery drivers rely on this algorithm to do their jobs. While crossing the street in a quiet suburban neighborhood is probably safe, doing so on a 50 mph highway can be deadly.
Sane companies, like UPS, have drivers in these situations first deliver on one side of a busy street and then on the other side of a street.
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