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"How does the package get from the self driving car to your porch?"
Like the aircraft carrier and aircraft, you could have a delivery vehicle that acted as a quadracopter platform to take the item from van to house over shorter distances.
Yay! Buy $8 DVD using stolen credit card, get free drone.
Another question is would they be a threat to birds?
The technology side is cool, but I don't relish the thought of looking out the window and seeing the air packed with delivery drones going to and fro.
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I'm imagining the code to plan the route of the autonomous truck as it accounts for travel time/range in and out for each delivery. The truck never stops, optimizing its route for all the drones it has in the air. Writing that code would be a pretty cool job.
I imagine much of the time the best optimization would end up being a single drone.
If this ever actually happens, delivery theft will be rampant.
If these get mass adoption, won't it make for highly congested skies in urban areas? Another question is would they be a threat to birds? The technology side is cool, but I don't relish the thought of looking out the window and seeing the air packed with delivery drones going to and fro.
A system-wide software glitch could also cause quite a mess in a dense city.
I think this could be cool but I would prefer my packages to be delivered by the Planet Express ship.
If these get mass adoption, won't it make for highly congested skies in urban areas? Another question is would they be a threat to birds? The technology side is cool, but I don't relish the thought of looking out the window and seeing the air packed with delivery drones going to and fro.