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Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. (news.yahoo.com)

submitted 10 months 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] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...why would they? Even in the rare occurrence that it were to fall out of the sky there's very little chance it would hit anyone. And even in the exceptionally rare occurrence that it were to hit someone, they're incredibly light and unlikely to cause serious damage, much less kill anyone.

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

Even in the rare occurrence that it were to fall out of the sky there’s very little chance it would hit anyone.

...unless it's in a city.

And even in the exceptionally rare occurrence that it were to hit someone, they’re incredibly light and unlikely to cause serious damage, much less kill anyone.

...unless it's a large drone carrying a heavy package.

If we're going to replace delivery drivers with drones, they have to be able to carry more than a single five-pound item.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

...unless it's in a city.

Even harder in a city since it would have to nosedive between buildings.

...unless it's a large drone carrying a heavy package.

One of many reasons they have weight limits.

If we're going to replace delivery drivers with drones, they have to be able to carry more than a single five-pound item.

They'll likely never replace them entirely.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

You know there are places in cities with tons of pedestrians, right? And sometimes things from high up fall on them and kill them, right?

Also, if they have weight limits, we won't be replacing drivers with them. There will still be drivers. So I'm not sure how this saves lives.