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Amazon - to deliver via drones
12-02-2013, 06:27 AM
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Amazon has unveiled its secret research project which it claims will be the future of home delivery - packages delivered by drones.
The Internet shopping giant’s chief executive Jeff Bezos says that he wants to use octocoptors to replace postmen and cut delivery times to just 30 minutes.
Customers would have their order dropped onto their front lawn by the machine which would fly through the air from a nearby warehouse with it clasped in a metal grabber.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...DRONE.html
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12-02-2013, 07:11 AM
Sounds fishy. Imagine the airspace clutter, people camping on rooftops with shotguns trying to bring one down, the complex navigation system (has to be automated).
I'll believe it when I see it.
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12-02-2013, 07:41 AM
Is this from The Onion???
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12-02-2013, 08:06 AM
This copters would never make it out of a poor neighborhood intact. Either that or there will be amazing lawsuits from a curious dog or child getting struck or mangled in the rotors during takeoff or landing.
If they can control it by making it some sort of premium novelty service first though I think that it would be successful. Can you imagine how "keeping up with the jonses" that would make people? The nerd envy of seeing someone else have a robot helicopter land at their house is palpable.
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12-02-2013, 08:44 AM
Maybe this will work in suburbia.
But where I live, there is an annoying miss mash of overhead electrical wiring that makes it perilous to try and take off any sort of helicopter.
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12-02-2013, 09:20 AM
Sounds like a good way to transport drugs to me.
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Amazon - to deliver via drones
12-02-2013, 09:51 AM
Haha this will never work. It'll only be a few select areas if it does actually happen.
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Amazon - to deliver via drones
12-02-2013, 12:25 PM
I think this will be used alot in business to business deliveries. At the very least.
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12-02-2013, 02:37 PM
This looks cool, but they are too noisy.
Also, how are they going to deliver to an apartment building. You can't just leave shit at the door in an urban neighborhood.
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12-02-2013, 03:02 PM
I can imagine a day when a number of these drones fly around in Blade Runner/Fifth Element/Starwars like highways in the sky delivering shit every which way
I can also imagine a 100 of these landing in on place where each of those yellow boxes packed with c4
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12-02-2013, 03:07 PM
Also, what if these drones are flying around, mechanics fail and it falls and lands on someone killing them....
Can you imagine the hefty lawsuits from the victim's families?
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12-02-2013, 03:51 PM
It amazes me how willing we are to embrace a nightmare future. Do you really want to live in a world with thousands of noisy drones flying everywhere? And then you have the drones recording your every movement and archiving the information in an NSA computer. And all of the gruesome drone accidents. And the criminals can get drones. How would you like being held up at gunpoint by a drone? Or a drone peaking through your windows taking pictures of your wife? This is why God invented shotguns.
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Amazon - to deliver via drones
12-02-2013, 06:46 PM
@Sherman
That's a valid point.
But I have to disagree. Genuine progress should never be stopped out of fear for the unknown, we should instead find a solution for the new challenges facing us.
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Amazon - to deliver via drones
12-02-2013, 06:55 PM
These look like they would be fun to shoot down.
Like shooting pigeons.