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Parcel Delivery by UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:21:47 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote: "son_of_flubber" wrote in message ... http://qz.com/120654/china-could-bec...very-by-drone/ The drones in those pictures generally have a very short duration; probably in the order of 20 to 30 minutes. I don't see them doing much remote delivery. The drone performance was quite adequate to the task at hand, and it's a smart move. What you saw is Amazon getting its name all over newspapers, TV screens and blogs in the middle of the holiday shopping season. They paid the cost of producing and airing a commercial; the rest comes at no additional charge! As another poster suggests, the system demonstrated would cause a historic business boom for pediatric and veterinary hospitals. |
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Accidents and lawsuits would definitely give these big businesses a
problem. But big business usually finds ways to cope and get its way if there is enough profit. E g air liner crashes and the cost of safety measures versus the often cheaper move of paying the litigation or its insurance costs. IMHO what might well kill it off is the profit motive itself in other parts of the economy. I think there would be enough people who would hijack and steal these drones and it would be very difficult to prevent or catch them. The scenario now gets horrific. The drones would become heavily armed and fight off intruders. So we dont need Skynet to nuke us into near oblivion - the oblivious consumers would hardly notice terminators evolving and new forms of gang war and anti drone vigilantes becoming the norm and topics of documentaries and movies. Bring back Marvin the Paranoid Android. |
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On Sunday, December 8, 2013 3:59:57 AM UTC-7, Ray Swinfield wrote:
Accidents and lawsuits would definitely give these big businesses a problem. But big business usually finds ways to cope and get its way if there is enough profit. E g air liner crashes and the cost of safety measures versus the often cheaper move of paying the litigation or its insurance costs. IMHO what might well kill it off is the profit motive itself in other parts of the economy. I think there would be enough people who would hijack and steal these drones and it would be very difficult to prevent or catch them. The scenario now gets horrific. The drones would become heavily armed and fight off intruders. So we dont need Skynet to nuke us into near oblivion - the oblivious consumers would hardly notice terminators evolving and new forms of gang war and anti drone vigilantes becoming the norm and topics of documentaries and movies. Bring back Marvin the Paranoid Android. http://samy.pl/skyjack/ |
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Parcel Delivery by UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor wind above 10 knots nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
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On Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:47:00 AM UTC-5, wrote:
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor wind above 10 knots nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Ha. Yep. I expect that small UAVs will eventually have liquid fuel engines.. The electric motors make it cheap and relatively safe to prototype the hardware and software. That makes it fertile ground for a generation of young people and hobbyists to play and innovate. I wonder what the "horse people" said about those geeky Wright brothers? |
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Shooting drones out of the sky will be a lot more fun for thieves - compared to stealing your packages off your porch. kk
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Parcel Delivery by UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)
On Sunday, December 8, 2013 2:55:57 PM UTC-8, wrote:
Shooting drones out of the sky will be a lot more fun for thieves - compared to stealing your packages off your porch. kk That would be drone abuse! |
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