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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] -5 points 1 year ago (50 children)

Delivery trucks require a human to drive.

Ok... and? How is that a problem that needs solving?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Waste of resources. A human can do other things besides drive a van around all day. We spend all this money educating people. So they can do a job a person with a 3rd grade education can do?

Been in automation a long time. Have personally witnessed the primary task of a worker being replaced by a bin.

We should encourage anything that gets rid of mindless tasks and dehumanizes workers

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (10 children)

And they should do what instead to put food on the table?

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

UBI comes to mind.

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

Maybe we should implement that first and fire all the delivery people second? But as long as Amazon saves money, that's the important thing.

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