Yay! Buy $8 DVD using stolen credit card, get free drone.
You mean the free drone that will be streaming video and telemetry to Amazon and will be nearly impossible to fence?
Amazon Unveils Delivery By Drone
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#62This is terrifying. If they successfully lobby to legalize commercial drones in low-flying airspace, the peaceful sky will be polluted with flying robots (we've destroyed the terrestrial environment already, seriously don't need to destroy the sky too), businesses would have access to terrifying surveillance, criminals/terrorists could remotely break into drones or fly their own disguised to look like commercial ones (and load them with cameras or weapons), etc. All so Amazon could be slightly faster than Instacart?
FYI I'm not a luddite and I recognize the increased convenience that faster shipping would provide and the potential other gains that would come of commercial drones. But the tradeoff just doesn't seem worth it here at all.
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#63If this ever actually happens, delivery theft will be rampant.
My first thought is that knocking drones out of the sky (not necessarily to steal their contents) could become the new fun activity for bored juvenile delinquents.
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#64For me and many it seems file this under hard to believe! It begs me to wonder.... 1. Won't theft of packages run rampant or Amazon only will deploy drones to customers currently home? 2. Wouldn't the drones be subject to be shot or brought down? 3. Will this only fly in good weather? 4. The sky is going to be littered with these things flying around? 5. Will there be a service where you can rent a drone to spy on yo…
If you recast these questions according to how deliveries work right now, I think you see that we already have all those problems and we manage to live with them: 1. Won't theft run rampant if UPS drops off your package at your door when you're not home? 2. Don't drivers of cars and trucks risk getting shot or stopped? 3. Will cars and trucks travel only in good weather? 4. The highways are going to be littered with…
Also, it should be mentioned that the answer to those questions is that thousands of packages get stolen and thousands of people get killed every year in the current system, yet we still apparently find it acceptable. I find it hard to imagine this drone delivery paradigm being worse.
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#65I think it's fair to say that between self driving cars and self guided quadracopters, it is entirely possible to have a fully or nearly autonomous end-to-end logistics system in the next 10-15 years. A lot of the problems with longer distance quadracopters could be overcome with a self driving delivery van, similar to an aircraft carrier with fighter jets.
I was a bit distraught to see human hands touching my requested item at one point in the video. Surely that can be eliminated.
Amazon has warehouse robots already. I think it's just often cheaper to pay people.
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/amazon-s-robotic-workforce-no...
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#66Roof-mounted miniature helipad mailboxes, painted with QR codes. Really, why don't houses already have package receptacles for UPS and FedEx?
The lack of these in big cities is especially perplexing, since theft is a larger concern than in the suburbs. Why doesn't my apartment in NYC have a one-way drop box for delivery?
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#67For me and many it seems file this under hard to believe! It begs me to wonder.... 1. Won't theft of packages run rampant or Amazon only will deploy drones to customers currently home? 2. Wouldn't the drones be subject to be shot or brought down? 3. Will this only fly in good weather? 4. The sky is going to be littered with these things flying around? 5. Will there be a service where you can rent a drone to spy on yo…
If you recast these questions according to how deliveries work right now, I think you see that we already have all those problems and we manage to live with them: 1. Won't theft run rampant if UPS drops off your package at your door when you're not home? 2. Don't drivers of cars and trucks risk getting shot or stopped? 3. Will cars and trucks travel only in good weather? 4. The highways are going to be littered with…
Your response really isn't helpful for 2 and 3.
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#68If 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.
I think that's a misplaced concern. I'd rather have them in the skies than on the streets, competing with personal automobiles, pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.
Altering natura ecosystem further is more favorable than inconveniencing people while they go about their days?
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#69If 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.
I think that's a misplaced concern. I'd rather have them in the skies than on the streets, competing with personal automobiles, pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.
Altering natura ecosystem further is more favorable than inconveniencing people while they go about their days?
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#70If 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.
I think that's a misplaced concern. I'd rather have them in the skies than on the streets, competing with personal automobiles, pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.
Altering natura ecosystem further is more favorable than inconveniencing people while they go about their days?