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Title: Amazon planning to use aerial drones to deliver packages
Post by: Paddy on December 02, 2013, 10:12:24 AM
I keep wondering if this is April 1, but here goes…

http://www.techhive.com/article/2068040/am...html#tk.rss_all

As the second comment on the article says - there are a whole lot of potential problems!
Title: Amazon planning to use aerial drones to deliver packages
Post by: gunug on December 02, 2013, 10:49:43 AM
I foresee an entire different criminal enterprise of drone-jacking will be born about two days after they launch the first delivery!
Title: Amazon planning to use aerial drones to deliver packages
Post by: kimmer on December 02, 2013, 07:27:11 PM
I have visions of a drone battling the wind and rain here on the coast as it circles for hours trying to find our house—which the maps all say doesn't exist—until the drone runs out of juice and hits the Pacific with a mighty splash.  toothgrin.gif

Or the drone does find our house, drops the package, and before we can go grab it our local bear smells the fruit-scented soap and steals our package.  jawdrop.gif

Title: Amazon planning to use aerial drones to deliver packages
Post by: Xairbusdriver on December 02, 2013, 07:27:49 PM
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as soon as the necessary regulations are in place
That might also be a tiny little problem knowing how long it takes "regulations" to be approved in the USoA. Thinking.gif "12/31/2015"? Dream on!

"I want what I want and I want now!" Where have I heard this before? Oh yeah, from a three year old!

Kimmer, somehow, I think you may be slightly more than 10 miles from their 'distribution center!' rolleyes.gif laugh.gif
Title: Amazon planning to use aerial drones to deliver packages
Post by: gunug on December 02, 2013, 08:02:33 PM
Saw this at: http://boingboing.net/2013/12/02/missed-de...s-of-the-f.html


Apparently they're already doing deliveries like this in the UK (probably shorter approval process)!
Title: Amazon planning to use aerial drones to deliver packages
Post by: RNKIII on December 02, 2013, 08:14:17 PM
My wonderment comes from "high-density" housing….  whose window ledge do they leave the package on???   And visions of 'down the chimney' spring to mind.

And what do you do to all those yellow 'flight carriers' you accumulate… will we have to start paying a deposit and then return them to Amazon for a refund?

Is the 30 minute delivery time a guarantee??  and who will be the first to train their Rotweiler to track drones and retrieve packages from around the neighborhood??


I can see many an SNL skit being put together right now.


Bob K.   rnkiii
Title: Amazon planning to use aerial drones to deliver packages
Post by: kimmer on December 02, 2013, 09:14:18 PM
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Dec 2 2013, 05:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Kimmer, somehow! I think you may be slightly more than 10 miles from their 'distribution center!' rolleyes.gif laugh.gif

I can dream. After all, we got a FedEx hub at our airport because a small company sprang up and there were so many shipments coming and going that FedEx came to live—and that brought a small UPS center. So you never know. wink.gif  whistling.gif
Title: Amazon planning to use aerial drones to deliver packages
Post by: Xairbusdriver on December 02, 2013, 09:28:05 PM
"Build it and they will fly out of it?"
Title: Amazon planning to use aerial drones to deliver packages
Post by: Xairbusdriver on December 03, 2013, 12:24:46 PM
I read a report today that claims a sentence in the proposed FAA regs explicitly says "Autonomous drones are prohibited." (it's on page 38 of the proposed regs, if you have a copy at the house...) The headline of the story pretty well summed things up: "Amazon Drones Rise Mostly on Hot Air" yes.gif But, any PR is good PR, I guess. dntknw.gif
Title: Amazon planning to use aerial drones to deliver packages
Post by: dboh on December 05, 2013, 06:59:38 AM
I saw this on 60 Minutes. Even Bezos said that his drones were years away from implementation.