Amazon unveils futuristic plan: Delivery by drone

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by chaz • 13 years ago

24 6 13 years ago

Seems kind of weird to imagine lots of drones flying over urban areas and not hitting each other falling out of the sky and hurting people.

MWil• 13 years ago

I'm just not a fan of drones. In any context. They are 4th amendment eradicators for people like me who live very tall buildings with tall glass windows. It won't be snooping when I'm walking around naked at night, it'll be "why haven't you installed anti-drone screens, you should know better".

First they came for my ability to hang out with my thang out...

moocowduckquack• 13 years ago

Was thinking about this yesterday. If you link up a drone to a mobile, you don't have to wait anywhere for a parcel delivery.

Of course the risk due to shenanigans would be pretty high, so you would have to have some way of only revealing location information to trusted sending parties, rather than it being used for general mail.

edit - is inspired slightly by Bill Hicks' idea of 'smart-fruit' in his Iraq war rant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4CQ_1GWn4w

shmoogin• 13 years ago

This is big. This is an excellent use of drones, and I'm actually morally okay with this. I'd love to see how this goes down.

heydenberk• 13 years ago

What's more compelling to me than any particular use of drones for delivery is the idea of drone delivery infrastructure ("dronenet" or "dronet") with well-defined protocols: TCP/IP for physical objects.

Vektorweg• 13 years ago

Actually, i think, a drone could carry a human. Like a taxi.

Amazon unveils futuristic plan: Delivery by drone

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