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Well... Drone delivery may work in countryside, where people live in personal homes not apartments, perhaps with a bit of green flat area suitable for landing a
by xte 8y ago
Well... Drone delivery may work in countryside, where people live in personal homes not apartments, perhaps with a bit of green flat area suitable for landing and leave a small package.
It's essentially unfeasible in cities where nearly anyone live in apartments, with dense roads, no clearly identifiable landing site, no place to fly without being on to of many people's head etc.
I dream a society in which we are few enough to live all in large are and we can easily travel with personal STOL small planes and goods can travel longer paths on waterway/railway to be delivered by truck or planes only for the last small trip. But that's a dream really hard to realize especially these days.
It's the same for electric cars: I'd love them if they have small rechargeable batteries like water bottle basket that I can simply change by hand and their charge last long as traditional car range or better. I'd love to have small "generators" on board like Star Trek reactors, but that's a dream. And I do live in reality, at least last time I checked...
- 8note 8y agomy apartment in Seattle has a specific drone landing spot
- xte 8y agoMay I ask how a drone can locate your apartment? Because I can easily imaging to give coordinates of a garden with a precision suitable for a delivery but I can't imaging something that can really work in apartments... Perhaps penthouse apartments, perhaps some new apartments with specially crafted sign to be identified with reasonable safety by the drone but certainly not something that can work at a scale...
- balt_s 8y agohttps://www.google.com/search?q=seattle+apartments+with+drone+landing+pad https://www.google.com/search?q=seattle+apartments+with+dron... Sounds dubious.