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Drones are poised to reshape home design
- neonate 6y agohttps://archive.is/QYOWV https://archive.is/QYOWV
- nitrogen 6y agoI was expecting this to be about architecture designed to protect one's privacy with a bunch of camera drones whizzing around, but it's quite the opposite. It's about building landing pads for drones into houses. Let’s say you want a hamburger. Not from a flying drone, I don't.
- AYBABTME 6y agoWhy not? Last mile delivery by drone has huge potential in making neighborhoods better. Less traffic, less ICE engines, faster and cheaper service, easier market entry for new operators.
- brudgers 6y agoNoise. Pass me the Red Ryder Ralphy.
- Ancapistani 6y agoI understand this is hyperbole, but in case anyone doesn’t realize this - shooting at a drone carries the same penalty in the US as shooting at an airliner.
- dclusin 6y agoMarin, CA will ban them on account of the noise drones make.
- llukas 6y agoYou mean more drone traffic that are louder than cars? ICE engines are going to be extinct anyway.
- AYBABTME 6y agoThere's ground drones too, well suited for delivery.
- bigbubba 6y agoBecause I don't want a side of headache served with my burger. I'll walk five minutes down the street to the burger shop instead. No traffic, just some fresh air.
- LinuxBender 6y agoSurveillance drones in every neighborhood should be valuable to someone. On a plus side, packages can be dropped off in a place harder for random street walkers to approach.
- ProfessorLayton 6y agoAside from the aforementioned "Skyport" landing pad installed in large buildings, I do not see drones becoming a large part of daily life so long as there's a housing crisis (In the U.S. anyway). What does a housing crisis have to do with drones?: NIMBYism The same forces that compel municipalities to heavily restrict the height of a single family home, or absurd setbacks on all sides of the property line etc, are the same forces that will absolutely not tolerate a neighbor constantly having drones buzz in and out of their property and neighborhood. If you've heard a drone fly nearby before, you may be inclined to agree, those things are loud. Until there's a way to fly drones around silently, I see no sensible path to mass market drones. This isn't an endorsement for or against delivery drones at all, personally I think it would be amazingly convenient, but I also think building densely around transit stations as convenient too, yet NIMBYism in the Bay has all but put a stop to that.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoOther than wealthy suburbs that are exclusive by their very nature the "housing crisis" only exists in a couple cities. Those "forces" of which you speak don't seem to exist (or if they do they don't have teeth) in most places.
- curuinor 6y agothe crisis doesn't exist for most lumps of land, but it exists for most _people_ because the places where the housing crisis is, is where the people are. NYC has more people in it than a third of the landmass of the US
- jcims 6y agoFor people that don't have the means to find housing nor the ability to relocate it's fair to call it a crisis. Their health and welfare is directly at risk and they have limited facility to do anything about it. For everyone else I'd call it a shortage.
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- rhodo 6y agoDrones are roughly as loud as a gas powered leaf blower [1]. I bet the hype is going to die real quick when people realize how annoying the noise is. Or at least I hope. Drones are cool but imagining the high-pitched whine of a even a few of these at all times gives me a headache. [1] https://theconversation.com/drones-to-deliver-incessant-buzzing-noise-and-packages-116257 https://theconversation.com/drones-to-deliver-incessant-buzz...
- austinwade 6y agoWhat a terrible outlook.
- TylerE 6y agoCan't be any worse than the rumble of a UPS truck. That carries. A drone, at least, can stay at an inaudible (say, 500ft) altitude for most of it's trip.
- foolfoolz 6y agoThe UPS truck comes to your street once a day. Maybe you get 3 delivery trucks total. A drone could be in your neighborhood every hour all afternoon. There is someone near me who flies theirs at night, i can hear it much farther away than any delivery truck
- apaprocki 6y agoThat is not a general fact. UPS visits our street probably closer to 5 times per day. Then there’s FedEx, USPS, and Prime all also visiting multiple times per day. Thankfully they are not as loud as the landscape care outfits that run the gas powered blowers n’ mowers.
- cma 6y agoFor deliveries it could have wings and only be loud during vertical landings.
- shiftpgdn 6y agoThat UPS truck rumble will be long gone in a few years as Ford, Mercedes and Rivian roll out their electric trucks and vans.
- ars 6y agoWay more likely than a drone is a large mailbox type thing added to the porch. This way deliveries can be done with less fear of items being stolen.
- perfmode 6y ago"Let’s say you want a hamburger." Ah, this American life.
- daxaxelrod 6y agoI can see it. Some houses are designed around chimneys. Designing a similar orifice might make sense. The gif presented by the author seems a bit fantastical since you'd release way too much heat/cold air. Just ask anyone who's left the door open for 10 seconds in the winter. Would be interesting to see what drones look like in 10 years. Birds' wings are near-silent rotating airfoils.
- grogenaut 6y agohaving been buzzed by quite a few birds lately... they're not silent when they're taking off or hovering, they're quiet when they're gliding. humming birds sound like a small drone within about 10 feet. If you've ever flushed quail, pheasants, ducks, etc,it's not quiet either.
- daxaxelrod 6y agoA cursory google search has birds at around 30db and a DJI drone at around 1000x louder at 70db. I think this is something that can be worked on and improved. Also, I'd love to hunt duck one of these days, sounds like a very unique experience! source: https://www.airbornedrones.co/drone-noise-levels/ https://www.airbornedrones.co/drone-noise-levels/
- grogenaut 6y agoI specifically mentioned hovering not flying. We have a humming bird feeder right above a table, them suckers buzz us a lot. 50db my dishwasher is 48db (measured). Humming birds significantly louder when hovering. Drones are always hovering currently. Yes they can likely get a lot quieter. Planes are still quite loud, they've had 100+ years of work? Birds, they still make noise, and they've had millions. They seem to switch modes of flight to be quiet.
- daxaxelrod 6y agoJust to clarify, you measured hummingbirds at 50db? Birds had millions of years to optimize for lower energy consumption which makes me wonder if it could be mechanized. I understand where you're coming from with the plane analogy. I'd argue that a lot has been done to cabin acoustics the demand is that its quieter while you're on a flight. The desired for quieter drones stems more from 3rd parties.
- m1gu3l 6y agoMan this entire thread is full of people complaining about the noise of quadcopters... they are pretty noisy but y’all really don’t think we can get the noise level to a tolerable level. A lot of naysaying for something that seems pretty cool, maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee to join the default dystopian world view we have rockin here. Sheesh.