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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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truck driver? You know the most common job in the US. Do the people who you are advocating for know you have so little respect for their intelligence that you think they literally can do nothing else except drive a van around? I would be pretty insulted if someone was saying that my limitations were my current job.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You need a different license to drive a big rig truck than you do a package delivery truck. They would have to be retrained. Amazon sure won't pay for that. Who will?

And do you think trucking wouldn't also get automated?

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

Yeah so you will need to to take a class for a few days. So so burdensome. You can get an employer to sponsor the few hundred dollars or put it on credit. It isn't a lot of money you are talking about here.

Trucking could be automated one day but not tomorrow.

Just a fyi, people like it when you answer questions they ask instead of whining. I asked you a question and I noticed you didn't answer it. You will observe that I have answered all of your questions.

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

It takes more than a few days to get trained to get a CDL license. What a silly thing to say.

I also must have missed your question, but since you've insulted me by saying I'm "whining," I'm certainly not inclined to answer it now.

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

Don't worry we are done.

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

Why? Have you run out of insults?