This community likes to link to the most cancerous news sites.
Try this instead https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/30/24167776/amazon-prime-air-delivery-drones-faa-bvlos-approval
Pretty exciting, I just wish it was someone other than Amazon doing it.
I cannot see how Amazon expects to profit on this. Seems wildly expensive/complex and I’d rather wait than pay more for shipping.
And on top of which, these are definitely noisy nuisances, and as a result people are gonna fuck with them, and it’s inevitable that eventually it’s gonna hurt someone, which’ll cause a huge backlash and expensive lawsuits, etc etc etc.
The only situation i can see these being even potentially viable is in very rural areas, where delivery routes are expensive, people have lots of open land for it to safely reach the ground, and there aren’t a lot of nearby neighbors to annoy
“Leroy! One of them Amazon critters is coming! Bring your shotgun! Last time we gots that airpad thingy, let’s see what this one brings”
And in rural areas, it’ll be called “skeet shooting with prizes”. I know exactly what my redneck neighbors are like…
Their theory is that they can replace Human employees with this and thus save money.
I mean, if I could order some random stuff and have it delivered by drone in less than an hour even if it’s 1am then that’s pretty great.
But are they going to be flying? The project has been in a death spiral for years.
Given how the “shop and walk out” process worked, they’ll probably outsource it to people paid to throw packages on parachutes over your fence while they make a buzzing noise.
I didn’t know they were still doing this. I remember jokes in Parks and Rec about this forever ago.
So this means regular people are allowed to legally fly drones without line of sight too now… Right? (bet it doesn’t) :padme meme: