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If they're launching now in major cities, I'm guessing drone deliveries aren't coming anytime soon. (Or this is insurance against the drone plan not working.)
by BrentOzar 11y ago
If they're launching now in major cities, I'm guessing drone deliveries aren't coming anytime soon. (Or this is insurance against the drone plan not working.)
- itg 11y agoThose delivery drones aren't happening unless there is a huge improvement in battery technology and there are a number of companies and labs working very hard on that problem, some for decades.
- slayed0 11y agoI don't think the drone plan was ever a serious short term consideration for 99.999% of Amazon's business
- BrentOzar 11y ago> I don't think the drone plan was ever a serious short term consideration for 99.999% of Amazon's business Right, but where would it be a serious short term consideration? Where's that .001%? If it's not in dense urban areas like Seattle and Chicago, I'm not sure where it would work, and those are the very areas where they're launching Flex.
- ceejayoz 11y ago> Right, but where would it be a serious short term consideration? Public relations.
- gregwtmtno 11y agoWe are the drones.
- sgustard 11y agoThe drone thing is a ways off; this is akin to Uber hiring drivers while working on driverless cars. The sad thing is the majority of jobs I hear about in the exciting new sharing economy are drivers and delivery people -- unskilled jobs that skilled engineers are furiously working on eliminating.