Amazon to trial delivery-by-drone

Amazon to trial delivery-by-drone

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turbobloke

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Tuesday 26th July 2016
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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.

turbobloke

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Tuesday 26th July 2016
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Camoradi said:
I think this idea could take off
With a soft landing.

turbobloke

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For those who are drone savvy and keeping within the bounds of realism i.e. no drones the size of Chinooks, what max payload are we looking at if it goes ahead?