Amazon to trial delivery-by-drone

[anonymous-user]

Yipper said:

It is the future.

The savings in cost and speed from automated drone-delivery are too huge for Amazon, Domino's, Parcel Force and others to ignore.

At first, it will be small packages to rural areas at slow speed in good weather.

Eventually, it will be everything to everywhere at high speed in all weather.

Van and truck drivers in the next 5 to 50 years are toast.

I reckon 0.000000000001% of van drivers will be toast due to drone deliveries. May have missed a few 0's off

[Mr Snrub]

Jimboka said:

Yipper said:

It is the future.

The savings in cost and speed from automated drone-delivery are too huge for Amazon, Domino's, Parcel Force and others to ignore.

At first, it will be small packages to rural areas at slow speed in good weather.

Eventually, it will be everything to everywhere at high speed in all weather.

Van and truck drivers in the next 5 to 50 years are toast.

I reckon 0.000000000001% of van drivers will be toast due to drone deliveries. May have missed a few 0's off

My Mum grew up being told she wouldn't have to do housework since everyone would have a robot to take care of such chores. I'm not holding my breath.

[Blaster72]

Who is to say Amazon will own the drones. Perhaps in the future we'll all have a drone and just send it out to collect things. It's not impossible to think people could have a drone landing station in their gardens or car parks in the future.

Larger items will still need to come by land but Uber and the likes are already onto that problem with autonomous taxis rolling out in SF this week. An autonomous van that has lockers, just let them know you're home and the van rolls out from the local depot with your goods.

The drone things needs some work especially on the noise, they make an incredible amount of noise at the moment. A few thousand of those buzzing around 24/7 would drive us all nuts.

Still bonkers but not impossible.

[eharding]

Blaster72 said:

Perhaps in the future we'll all have a drone and just send it out to collect things.

...I think the traditional term for this technology is "husband".

[Cotty]

I haven't seen these yet and they are talking about drones? One step at a time.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/03/18/dominos-autono...

[Funkycoldribena]

Cotty said:

I haven't seen these yet and they are talking about drones? One step at a time.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/03/18/dominos-autono...

We have,2 pages back...

[Efbe]

Mr Snrub said:

My Mum grew up being told she wouldn't have to do housework since everyone would have a robot to take care of such chores. I'm not holding my breath.

washing machines, driers, dishwashers, microwaves
vast improvements in vacuum cleaners, irons, non-iron clothing, non-stick pans
Modern heating/builds that negate need to clean windows every morning,
Vastly cheaper clothes, linen etc meaning repairs are not required, and worn items can eaily be replaced.

House work has changed from a full time job to a 10 minute a day job.

(Also there are robots to do vacuuming/lawns already)

[Cobnapint]

Jimboka said:

Yipper said:

It is the future.

The savings in cost and speed from automated drone-delivery are too huge for Amazon, Domino's, Parcel Force and others to ignore.

At first, it will be small packages to rural areas at slow speed in good weather.

Eventually, it will be everything to everywhere at high speed in all weather.

Van and truck drivers in the next 5 to 50 years are toast.

I reckon 0.000000000001% of van drivers will be toast due to drone deliveries. May have missed a few 0's off

Agreed. Yipper seems to think one of these drones will be able to outrun an Asian guy on a moped with dodgy headlights - not a chance.

Also, whenever I've looked in the back of the beat up Transit (or whatever) that brings my stuff from Amazon, it's always chock full of stuff. How the hell is a drone going to manage that - unless the British Army are renting out Chinooks, it's not going to happen.

Delivery drivers - your jobs are safer than ever.

Yipper - dream on son.

[Pan Pan Pan]

I wonder if people will just order something small, so they can get hold of the drone?
I assume they will not be allowed to be used within a certain radius of airports and airfields which might significantly limit where they can and cannot be used. As a pilot, I am not sure I would like to meet one on climb out, or on approach.

[XM5ER]

Nine pages and five months of discussing Amazon and no one has realised that the whole point of this was to generate free ad pixels for Amazon yet?

[kowalski655]

eharding said:

Blaster72 said:

Perhaps in the future we'll all have a drone and just send it out to collect things.

...I think the traditional term for this technology is "husband".

I know exactly what you mean!

[loudlashadjuster]

XM5ER said:

Nine pages and five months of discussing Amazon and no one has realised that the whole point of this was to generate free ad pixels for Amazon yet?

Plenty of people have pointed this out

[eric twinge]

So if I order a drone from Amazon, I would have a drone delivering a drone. Cool!

[SystemParanoia]

eric twinge said:

So if I order a drone from Amazon, I would have a drone delivering a drone. Cool!

[Pan Pan Pan]

SystemParanoia said:

eric twinge said:

So if I order a drone from Amazon, I would have a drone delivering a drone. Cool!

The Amazon drone looks like a fair piece of kit, How difficult would it be to order a small item, to be delivered by one, and then just grab, keep, and modify the drone for personal use. (After first having contacted Amazon complaining that the item you ordered didn't ever turn up of course! naughty me!

[WestyCarl]

I suspect there were similar discussions years ago about those new fanged too dangerous horseless carriage's, or the portable wireless telephones that would fry your brain, or cars that can drive themselves.

Off course it's going to happen for some deliveries, it's just a matter of when.

[SystemParanoia]

Besides.

The drones used will be made out of cheap foam, and wont cost a noticeable amount to amazon.
and they will probably only deliver to prime customers.

the skys will be like flocking starlings... great stuff

[XM5ER]

loudlashadjuster said:

Plenty of people have pointed this out

Good. I couldn't be arsed reading 9 pages of stuff.

[Efbe]

Pan Pan Pan said:

SystemParanoia said:

eric twinge said:

So if I order a drone from Amazon, I would have a drone delivering a drone. Cool!

The Amazon drone looks like a fair piece of kit, How difficult would it be to order a small item, to be delivered by one, and then just grab, keep, and modify the drone for personal use. (After first having contacted Amazon complaining that the item you ordered didn't ever turn up of course! naughty me!

Because they will have a multi-angle video of the drone flying to your house with you grabbing the drone out of the air uploaded to their server.

[Pan Pan Pan]

Efbe said:

Pan Pan Pan said:

SystemParanoia said:

eric twinge said:

So if I order a drone from Amazon, I would have a drone delivering a drone. Cool!

The Amazon drone looks like a fair piece of kit, How difficult would it be to order a small item, to be delivered by one, and then just grab, keep, and modify the drone for personal use. (After first having contacted Amazon complaining that the item you ordered didn't ever turn up of course! naughty me!

Because they will have a multi-angle video of the drone flying to your house with you grabbing the drone out of the air uploaded to their server.

Or it could just be someone in a hoodie, or balaclava nipping into a garden to grab the drone and its cargo they have just seen come down. No way of proving who got it in the end.