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Delivery to street isn't complicated and is straight forward to being secure. Drone tells you it has arrived and then in the app there's an unlock button in th
by ckdarby 7y ago
Delivery to street isn't complicated and is straight forward to being secure.
Drone tells you it has arrived and then in the app there's an unlock button in the app.
Drone arrives & calls where you're asked to press 1.
Drone arrives & SMS where replying would achieve the same.
Drone arrives and connecting Bluetooth via the app would unlock.
It's 2020, KISS mentality. Assumption: Why do us in software development have a tenancy to over engineer.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoAssuming there's somebody there to get it, and very promptly. Imagine the drone hovering there, battery draining, holding your dripping vindaloo and you're in the bathroom or bedroom with your sweetie and in no hurry to do any of the above. Maybe secure delivery isn't hard for takeout, because usually somebody is hungry and wants it (usually). But UPS or Fedex happens when nobody's home. That's probably the better user story for secure delivery.
- ckdarby 7y agoDon't pickup in 5 mins it just leaves. This is how the Uber model was before they changed to just,"Drivers billable time starts after 2 mins of waiting. Looks like they faired out alright as a company.
- JoeAltmaier 7y ago...leaves with the food? And enough battery to get back with the weight of the food? Probably it'd just drop it I guess.
- Symmetry 7y agoThe food is only going to be, what, 10% of the weight of the vehicle? They'd be crazy to have battery margins low enough for the weight of the food to make a difference.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoNo, that's engineering. The battery is everything (most of the weight; large part of the cost). If the battery is even a little bigger than it needs to be, that's money out of their pocket (or less competitive prices).