Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual customer
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#3I can't see this becoming a regular activity. They'll be people waiting near the distribution center treating it like skeet shooting range
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#4According to Vice News this is already is happening in China
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#6I see the test flight conveniently took place over farmland. What happens when one of these has a mid-flight failure and hits someone over the head?
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#7I can't see this becoming a regular activity. They'll be people waiting near the distribution center treating it like skeet shooting range
Right, the same number of people who are hijacking ups trucks.
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#8I can't see this becoming a regular activity. They'll be people waiting near the distribution center treating it like skeet shooting range
...and police waiting to arrest those people for vandalism, theft, and public endangerment.
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#913 minute delivery. Pretty nice!
Also, "Amazon’s proposed use of drones may drive down the cost to deliver small packages crosstown to as little as $1, a fraction of existing same-day delivery options, according to a 2015 study by New York-based ARK Invest that tried to quantify the savings from the use of drones compared with delivery trucks and couriers."
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#10Anybody know how much it costs them to make one of these deliveries? Is it cost-competitive with a delivery truck?