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tr1age

tr1age

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Amazon Wants To Deliver Your Stuff Using Drones. Seriously.
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It sounds like a late April Fool's joke, but no. Amazon has really just announced a new service called Amazon Prime Air, where sometime in the next few years select customers can get stuff delivered straight to their doorstep via drone.P
You can't use it yet - Amazon is awaiting approval from the FAA - but they're expecting the green light for unmanned delivery sometime in 2015. Then when final testing and R&D is done after that (the footage you see here is from a test flight), they hope to be able to deliver stuff to people's homes "in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles".P

Wow.P



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Umm... What about people in apartments that don't have a convenient back step? This plan has a lot of the same problems as Santa, including veracity.
 
Keleynal said:
Umm... What about people in apartments that don't have a convenient back step? This plan has a lot of the same problems as Santa, including veracity.
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that's why it says select customers, not all customers.
 
The future is here.... I would have thought this was 20 years away, and I'm really surprised the FAA would approve this.
 
If Google had this it would make way for air view for bird lovers on google maps.


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Weather would be a big factor as well. As a gimmick, maybe it would work some places. It doesn't look practical or reliable to me.
 
You should read the full article on this. It is actually pretty damn amazing. Lookslike the future will be here soon where our skies look like our highways. If we don't blow ourselves up first.


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@Keleynal , you should check out some of the "all terrain" drones that exist right now. Can handle all times of terrain, be it rocky, icy, hilly, inclined, etc. They look like freakin mutant dogs, but no matter what happens, they adapt and pass through all obstacles (including after being hit by explosions, as they were built for carrying military equipment I believe).
 
I know the drones exist. It's more a question of it's practicality in making everyday deliveries. Are we really going to have an unmanned aircraft worth thousands of dollars rush someone a Twinkie to their front door?

I just realized how awesome that sounds.

But it's still a complete misuse of technology! If it costs more to deliver the product than the product itself, how is that sustainable?
 
Keleynal said:
I know the drones exist. It's more a question of it's practicality in making everyday deliveries. Are we really going to have an unmanned aircraft worth thousands of dollars rush someone a Twinkie to their front door?

I just realized how awesome that sounds.

But it's still a complete misuse of technology! If it costs more to deliver the product than the product itself, how is that sustainable?
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Imho this it's where the qualifier select still comes into play. If you can pay for the shipping they'll go for it.
 
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