I remember hearing about this in a video on drone delivery in Phoenix AZ, which due to weather conditions seems like a great place to fly drones. The big takeaw

I remember hearing about this in a video on drone delivery in Phoenix AZ, which due to weather conditions seems like a great place to fly drones. The big takeaway was drones make great sense in places where no delivery infrastructure by ground exists and the airspace isn't highly restricted, and that they don't make tons of sense elsewhere. Also that autonomous takeoff and landing are hard to get right, and plenty of people in cities rent small apartments and don't have a space like a yard or a large balcony big enough to just have a drone easily, safely automatically land. I saw another video about a network of automated delivery bots on a very famous and chaotic Minecraft server, 2b2t, run by an opportunistic software developer. Players who want large amounts of valuable in-game items make a small payment of real life currency to this player† and request it to drop them off at a certain set of in-game co-ordinates. The bot player uses a glider to get there and delivers large payloads of valuable items taken from a secret cache. Then the bot self-destructs so that they respawn at the secret cache instead of potentially revealing its location by going back. A very large chunk of the server's player base of players on this server have no home base, and just roam a very chaotic landscape which has mainly just large main highways, which get griefed often. It's only a game, but I think that models to us how relatively wealthy nomads living in very rural area/the wilderness would be a good target market for drone delivery. I think for automated delivery systems in well-connected/developed areas, we want a system that uses small rails/tubes like what we see in Brave New World. † This is against Minecraft's terms of service, but they do it anyways.