Amazon Can Now Test Its Delivery Drones in the U.S
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#2Hopefully Amazon develops some stealthier drones for this program. One commercial drone can sound like an angry swarm of bees on its own. Being anywhere near a distribution center could because maddening if they have hundreds of drones coming and going.
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#3I have mixed feelings about the rapid pace that technology is replacing human jobs.
As a consumer I couldn't be happier about getting things delivered faster and higher quality experiences with sub 1 hour delivery. Across the board technology companies are replacing humans and consolidating services.
My concern comes when I think about the accelerating rate that technology is replacing human jobs faster than humans can re-educate themselves to get new jobs. Education here is the missing link and if you look at our public education system it sucks, is leaving many poor and underserved people behind and creating a two class system.
I look forward to reading the pros and cons of technology replacing jobs with the understanding that HN is a pro technology community.
Re: Amazon Can Now Test Its Delivery Drones in the U.S
#4I have mixed feelings about the rapid pace that technology is replacing human jobs. As a consumer I couldn't be happier about getting things delivered faster and higher quality experiences with sub 1 hour delivery. Across the board technology companies are replacing humans and consolidating services. My concern comes when I think about the accelerating rate that technology is replacing human jobs faster than humans c…
We shouldn't be impeding progress to save jobs.
I believe an ultimate goal should be to reach the point where people don't need jobs.
Re: Amazon Can Now Test Its Delivery Drones in the U.S
#5I have mixed feelings about the rapid pace that technology is replacing human jobs. As a consumer I couldn't be happier about getting things delivered faster and higher quality experiences with sub 1 hour delivery. Across the board technology companies are replacing humans and consolidating services. My concern comes when I think about the accelerating rate that technology is replacing human jobs faster than humans c…
We shouldn't be impeding progress to save jobs. I believe an ultimate goal should be to reach the point where people don't need jobs.
I agree, but how do you reach that point? Automating a steady income is a lot of work, and the goal is to just give it away? I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Re: Amazon Can Now Test Its Delivery Drones in the U.S
#6I have mixed feelings about the rapid pace that technology is replacing human jobs. As a consumer I couldn't be happier about getting things delivered faster and higher quality experiences with sub 1 hour delivery. Across the board technology companies are replacing humans and consolidating services. My concern comes when I think about the accelerating rate that technology is replacing human jobs faster than humans c…
Quadcopter Drones are just not viable for delivery with current battery technology. Maximum lift is a couple of pounds for 15-20 minutes of flight. Wide use of overhead power lines in cities makes drone delivery unsafe in cities. Rural areas could make sense, lots of open space for landing, sparse population and long drives for drivers,straightforward navigation and obstacle avoidance. But that's not something Quadcopters would be good for, these long-distance hauls, some sort of drone plane would make more sense.
I feel this is somewhat misguided, even a modern version of a pneumatic mail tube system would make more sense to me.
There many other much better use cases for drones and Quadcopters in other industries. I'd expect self-driving cars to have more impact on delivery.
Re: Amazon Can Now Test Its Delivery Drones in the U.S
#7Hopefully Amazon develops some stealthier drones for this program. One commercial drone can sound like an angry swarm of bees on its own. Being anywhere near a distribution center could because maddening if they have hundreds of drones coming and going.
I'm interested in this as well and did some research on it and apparently most of the noise is generated by the ESCs (the components that control the speed of the rotors) and not the rotor blades themselves.
Re: Amazon Can Now Test Its Delivery Drones in the U.S
#8I have mixed feelings about the rapid pace that technology is replacing human jobs. As a consumer I couldn't be happier about getting things delivered faster and higher quality experiences with sub 1 hour delivery. Across the board technology companies are replacing humans and consolidating services. My concern comes when I think about the accelerating rate that technology is replacing human jobs faster than humans c…
Quadcopter Drones are just not viable for delivery with current battery technology. Maximum lift is a couple of pounds for 15-20 minutes of flight. Wide use of overhead power lines in cities makes drone delivery unsafe in cities. Rural areas could make sense, lots of open space for landing, sparse population and long drives for drivers,straightforward navigation and obstacle avoidance. But that's not something Quadco…
Are gasoline quadcopters viable?
Re: Amazon Can Now Test Its Delivery Drones in the U.S
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
We shouldn't be impeding progress to save jobs. I believe an ultimate goal should be to reach the point where people don't need jobs.
I agree, but how do you reach that point? Automating a steady income is a lot of work, and the goal is to just give it away? I don't see that happening anytime soon.
I have been having this debate with colleagues since I started taking Economics. We have not yet found a way to replace the current labor system without impeding the incentives that effect progress.
Re: Amazon Can Now Test Its Delivery Drones in the U.S
#10I have mixed feelings about the rapid pace that technology is replacing human jobs. As a consumer I couldn't be happier about getting things delivered faster and higher quality experiences with sub 1 hour delivery. Across the board technology companies are replacing humans and consolidating services. My concern comes when I think about the accelerating rate that technology is replacing human jobs faster than humans c…
Quadcopter Drones are just not viable for delivery with current battery technology. Maximum lift is a couple of pounds for 15-20 minutes of flight. Wide use of overhead power lines in cities makes drone delivery unsafe in cities. Rural areas could make sense, lots of open space for landing, sparse population and long drives for drivers,straightforward navigation and obstacle avoidance. But that's not something Quadco…
>Quadcopter Drones are just not viable for delivery with current battery technology.
AMZN can allow itself to implement infrastructure/process to use something like Al metal-air cells. Stick in, stick out, sent resulting Al oxide to re-processing. You'll get efficiency and range of at least gas engine without mess/maintenance. There are more advanced schemas available (like potassium based - more energy dense, easier for reprocessing), unfortunately most of the money is in Li based schemas which would make sense only if Li were to be the main by weight component, which isn't going to happen in any near future.
>Wide use of overhead power lines in cities makes drone delivery unsafe in cities.
that just control/sensor problem, pure tech and very solvable issue.
>I feel this is somewhat misguided
we need to utilize 3D en-mass, in particular for transportation. Whatever industry starts it doesn't really matter in big picture ... End result anyway will be an autonomous octocopter for commute :) (the autonomous cars Google develops will be great for trucks which will roam roads empty of people carrying cars)