TechCamerasDronesAmazon’s drone deliveries send soup in the skyIs it a bird? Is it a plane? No – it’s a drone-delivering souper, manWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechCamerasDronesAmazon’s drone deliveries send soup in the skyIs it a bird? Is it a plane? No – it’s a drone-delivering souper, manWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No – it’s a drone-delivering souper, man
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Amazon)
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Like fully autonomous self-driving, AI or the metaverse, it looks like drone deliveries continue to overpromise and underdeliver: “if this is science fiction, it’s being played for laughs”, the article says. If you want a tin of soup dropped from a great height into your back yard, delivery drones are great. But for actual sensible stuff, they’re still far from ready.
What’s wrong with drone deliveries?
Don’t get me wrong. Thebest dronesare brilliant things. But they are not brilliant alternatives to electric vans or e-bikes.
Unlike Ian the DPD driver or the guys who deliver my Prime packages, a drone can’t deliver more than one thing on its delivery run and it certainly can’t deliver my 15kg bags of dog food or my monthly kilos of coffee beans.
It can’t deliver anything that’s fragile, because the delivery drone drops it from a height of three metres, and it can’t deliver anything that’s valuable, because someone might see the drone drop and sneak in to steal your stuff.
And the drones don’t work if it’s too hot or too cold or too windy or too rainy.
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Other than that, they’re brilliant.
The simple and rather saddening fact is this: humans are cheaper.
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