The previous delivery vehicle[1] has no air conditioning. Which is a really big deal with how hot it gets in a lot of the US.
And if your vehicle is smaller and most other vehicles are larger and there's an accident then you're more likely to die. [2]
You may well be right that in an optimal scenario that smaller is better for delivery but the US has a wide variety of non-optimal scenarios.
I don't think the NGDV is perfect but I'm happy that USPS employees will be safer and happier.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV
[2] https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/latest-driver-death-rates-h...
The previous delivery vehicle[1] has no air conditioning. Which is a really big deal with how hot it gets in a lot of the US.
And if your vehicle is smaller and most other vehicles are larger and there's an accident then you're more likely to die. [2]
You may well be right that in an optimal scenario that smaller is better for delivery but the US has a wide variety of non-optimal scenarios.
I don't think the NGDV is perfect but I'm happy that USPS employees will be safer and happier.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV
[2] https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/latest-driver-death-rates-h...