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Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. (news.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy.

You need to be home to put out the landing target and to make sure that a porch pirate doesn’t make off with your item or that it doesn’t roll into the street (which happened once to Lord and Silverman). But your car can’t be in the driveway. Letting the drone land in the backyard would avoid some of these problems, but not if there are trees.

Amazon has also warned customers that drone delivery is unavailable during periods of high demand for drone delivery.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How is the delivery drone going to navigate around my wire antennas strung between the trees?

Even when you know where they are, they're hard to see unless the sun hits them just right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I suspect that would be your responsibility to either clear the area or not use the service. I can see the service having some useful niche case uses. Mainly if you need something light on short notice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or you'd have to 3D map your own local environment and keep it updated so the drones know where obstacles are when entering your property's airspace

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I would be fine with that. Looks like a big use case they want this service for is their pharmacy side. Get your teledoctors appointment via their app and the meds delivered via drone within the hour.