Amazon to trial delivery-by-drone
Discussion
Working with the UK gov't, air traffic control etc to get delivery times down to around 30 mins in some cases.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36887325
There must be a lot more to consider here e.g. range of the drones and Amazon's sites, drone misidentification (terrorism), hackability (terrorism and basic mischief) plus drone theft from the special domestic landing pads, though the latter would have a suspect on file at Amazon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36887325
There must be a lot more to consider here e.g. range of the drones and Amazon's sites, drone misidentification (terrorism), hackability (terrorism and basic mischief) plus drone theft from the special domestic landing pads, though the latter would have a suspect on file at Amazon.
Disastrous said:
Presumably if YODEL get involved with this, they'll just hover at 100M or whatever and simply drop your package into the neighbour's back garden? Bonus points if it has a mental dog waiting to tear it to shreds.
And then the drone will smash through your velux and then fly off and they'll deny it I'd imagine that the best use initially would be something along the lines of a van gets driven to a village, the drones then deliver everything for the village in a few minutes, then the van goes to the next village while the drones charge. Like a swarm descending bringing goodies.
Maybe if the battery life works (no idea) the van could just carry on driving while drones leave and return ad-hoc.
Maybe if the battery life works (no idea) the van could just carry on driving while drones leave and return ad-hoc.
paulrockliffe said:
I'd imagine that the best use initially would be something along the lines of a van gets driven to a village, the drones then deliver everything for the village in a few minutes, then the van goes to the next village while the drones charge. Like a swarm descending bringing goodies.
Maybe if the battery life works (no idea) the van could just carry on driving while drones leave and return ad-hoc.
That's actually quite sinister imagery for me. Gives me the creeps.Maybe if the battery life works (no idea) the van could just carry on driving while drones leave and return ad-hoc.
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