Amazon's cost-saving routing algorithm makes drivers walk into traffic
"An Amazon dispatcher whose job it is to monitor Amazon delivery drivers' progress on their routes using GPS on the Flex app said sometimes group stops on the Flex app are so spread out—with houses a quarter mile apart—that it takes 15 minutes to run up and down and back and forth across streets to make the deliveries. "You're hauling ass to get to these houses, sometimes running across four lanes of traffic," the dispatcher, who quit their job at an Amazon delivery depot in upstate New York in May, said."