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Amazon wants to use delivery drones to surveil your house
- sschueller 6y agoThey wouldn't be the first: https://www.sunflower-labs.com/ https://www.sunflower-labs.com/
- renewiltord 6y agoThis is a really cool product. But how does it detect the arrival of people and then launch the Bee? Surely the Bee has to be in-flight to know there are people there. Unless it's the other sensors that do that detection.
- Gibbon1 6y agoYa all understand that a delivery drone is going to sound like a leaf blower right?
- msadowski 6y agoIt bothers me that not many people talk about this. The future in which the drone buzz above your head all the time is something I wouldn’t be enjoying. Hope these things don’t catch on.
- greenyoda 6y agoThe noise isn't even the worst problem. What happens if a drone fails during flight (e.g., a bird flies into it) and it falls on someone's head? I don't really want aircraft, no matter how small, flying and landing around my neighborhood. (Nobody seems to think about failure modes when talking about flying cars either.) I can imagine that after the first few widely-publicized accidents, the use of delivery drones in residential areas may be regulated out of existence.
- engineer_22 6y agoThis is an area of active policy development. It's just not sexy so it's not on HN, but it's ongoing.