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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
The drones would be autonomous. According to the 60 Minutes piece, it sounds like it is five years out. With a 10 mile radius, this could be an interesting proposition.
10 mile radius? Where are you getting that figure? Also, I thought the distribution centers were usually a bit farther out than most metro areas, making that less practical?
Bezos mentioned this in his 60 Minutes interview.
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#13NFW does this not run into all sorts of regulatory hurdles.
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#14I didn't believe it was real until I saw this other submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6830583
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>>I had to seriously check to see it wasn't April 1st.
It isn't.
Honestly; I'm still not sure if this is a joke or not. This totally fits the kind of stuff Google likes to do on April 1st.
If this became real, I'd go out of my way to order things just to see that show up at my door. And I'm sure it won't be long until people plan on catching the device when it shows up. Even I probably couldn't resist the temptation of catching it and I'll probably have to pay a penalty, but it'd be worth it.
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It was on NBC or whatever, and they stated a "less than 5lbs" limit, which covers ~84% of their product base.
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#17Cool tech, but I question the practicality of it. This seems fraught with problems that a human on a bike wouldn't have. They're also entirely unsuitable for urban areas.
No, they're not entirely unsuitable for urban areas. Instead, their (relatively) short range means that they're unsuitable for anything except urban areas.
If designed poorly, they would be very unsafe, but there are plenty of ways to increase the safety. For example, notice that the drones have more than 4 rotors. This gives a bit of redundancy so that a motor can fail without causing the drone to crash.
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#18Cool tech, but I question the practicality of it. This seems fraught with problems that a human on a bike wouldn't have. They're also entirely unsuitable for urban areas.
The vast majority of the US isn't in an urban area, where these would thrive (presuming they could get the distance thing down).
Edit: maybe not (see below).
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#19Good job on finding that URL. This is really cool to share with my Facebook friends, and I have to like the tone of the ad copy that Amazon is preparing on this page, which is still in testing, as it would appear.
> Good job on finding that URL.
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This is one of those things where I check the calendar and the URL three times each, then still don't really believe it. I think I'll check the calendar again.