Major League Baseball stepped into the future with its recent announcement that “robotic umpires” will be introduced next season. Under MLB’s new Automated Ball-Strike challenge system, teams will have the opportunity to contest pitches they believe were called incorrectly, with an artificial intelligence system determining the outcome.

This is a positive development for baseball. After all, if we have the technology to improve accuracy and reduce errors, why wouldn’t we want games to be called more fairly? Simply, MLB is implementing this technology because it will make the game run more efficiently, not the opposite.

This anecdote offers a valuable lesson for considering the future of transportation and shipping in the United States. While baseball is gradually reducing the role of ump

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