I've always wondered if deliveries could be handled in a "hybrid" manner.
A delivery truck with an open top just drives down the street, drones peel off and deliver to the porch/backyard and return for another package from the truck.
You could deliver a truckload of packages to a neighborhood quickly, with lots less overall drone traffic.
My city currently has Amazon drone delivery. The drone going by sounds like a swarm of angry bees. Just today I heard something and was looking all over what was making all the noise, then I saw the drone fly overhead. I see them almost every time I leave my house now.
I got an offer once for a drone delivery. I would have to print something out, put it in my backyard, then go fetch the package from the backyard once delivered. From what I’ve seen, the drones also have a tendency to blow the package around when leaving. So instead of picking an item off my front porch, not really even leaving the house, I would need to go to the backyard and fetch the package (where ever it blew) and fetch the paper target to throw away.
This feels like a worse customer experience, moving from a porch to backyard delivery, and a worse experience for everyone in the flight path due to the noise. This is technology for the sake of technology.
I hope after the novelty wears off no one opts for drone delivery a second time. They are very annoying and create unnecessary noise pollution.
I don’t know how they can account for a drone randomly failing and dropping out of the sky? It’s not a matter if it’s going to happen, but a matter of when it happens. What happens if it landing on a car while someone is driving? What happens if it lands on person just going about their day? I don’t see any of this being worth the risk.
I see the targeted locations are considered the type to be open land regions, but that doesn’t eliminate obvious risk.
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[ 0.27 ms ] story [ 7.5 ms ] threadA delivery truck with an open top just drives down the street, drones peel off and deliver to the porch/backyard and return for another package from the truck.
You could deliver a truckload of packages to a neighborhood quickly, with lots less overall drone traffic.
I got an offer once for a drone delivery. I would have to print something out, put it in my backyard, then go fetch the package from the backyard once delivered. From what I’ve seen, the drones also have a tendency to blow the package around when leaving. So instead of picking an item off my front porch, not really even leaving the house, I would need to go to the backyard and fetch the package (where ever it blew) and fetch the paper target to throw away.
This feels like a worse customer experience, moving from a porch to backyard delivery, and a worse experience for everyone in the flight path due to the noise. This is technology for the sake of technology.
I hope after the novelty wears off no one opts for drone delivery a second time. They are very annoying and create unnecessary noise pollution.
I see the targeted locations are considered the type to be open land regions, but that doesn’t eliminate obvious risk.