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Because drones are noisy and irritating in reality and nobody wants them flying around their neighborhood and they don’t scale and they can potentially scare an
by 6stringmerc 2y ago
Because drones are noisy and irritating in reality and nobody wants them flying around their neighborhood and they don’t scale and they can potentially scare animals and and and…
- randerson 2y agoAnd they can't press buttons in the elevator. I don't think any delivery service will take off in a city if people have to leave their apartments.
- ekianjo 2y agoMaybe we will end up with a mix of drones for places where we can reach by air, and robot operators to deliver other packages when human interfaces are what you have to deal with.
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- Scoundreller 2y agoUhhhh, balconies? Reach out of an open window like a reverse drive-through?
- recursivecaveat 2y agoI think you'd have to have nerves of steel as a company to try either of those maneuvers. The wind can be unpredictable so close to a structure, it is a cramped environment filled with objects and materials you can't predict, even a meal for 2 can be kindof bulky (doubly so bc it has to be packed well enough to be airworthy), the load might shift internally, and if you screw up there's a good chance a drone goes plummeting 20 stories down onto a crowded sidewalk.
- elcritch 2y agoAlright hear me out, a drone "cannon" that shoots the food onto the balcony. It's perfect for covering that last distance. Works best for food packaged in discrete boxes. ;)
- 0_____0 2y agoUber yeets
- ForOldHack 2y agoOh ha ha ha. Funniest post in weeks.
- t-3 2y agoHow are they going to get the right apartment, and even if they do, what if the food gets fumbled in the handover and someone is injured by falling meals?
- bigiain 2y ago"We add a $70 surcharge to each delivery for the ballistic parachute system that protects people on the sidewalk from fumbled delivery handovers. This surcharge is refunded when the intact and unused parachute system is returned via the drone from your next delivery."
- rad_gruchalski 2y agoHow do you shoot that used delivery parachute back to the drone upon next delivery?
- throw2728384 2y agoDJI has those smart docking stations. Maybe eventually each apartment will have one or it'll be subsidized by delivery platforms.
- ForOldHack 2y agoFood slides? Smart waiters? Hook and cook? And a large orange drink?
- evan_ 2y agoPneumatic tubes
- traverseda 2y agoI'm disappointed society hasn't revisited pneumatic tube networks since we got good at packet switching and RFIDs and computing in general.
- aceazzameen 2y agoThis reminds me of The Fifth Element. The restaurant should fly to my balcony and serve me there.
- gonzobonzo 2y agoChinese delivery robots have been using elevators for years. I believe they wirelessly communicate with the elevator control system.
- VectorLock 2y ago>I believe they wirelessly communicate with the elevator control system. That sounds hilariously abusable.
- gonzobonzo 2y agoThe robots are operated by the building, for what it's worth. The delivery drivers drop the deliveries off to the robots in the lobby, and the robots take it from there to the individual rooms.
- VectorLock 2y agoThat actually sounds a lot better.
- namaria 2y agoYou do understand this single fact undermines your previous claim completely?
- euroderf 2y agoThis explains how elevators can always be hacked remotely by the Impossible Missions Force and other cinematic superteams.
- rescbr 2y agoThis is very much location/culture dependent. Where I live is customary for the delivery drivers to wait on the sidewalk while you go down to pick the order up.
- j_timberlake 2y agoI can't tell if this is sarcasm, because it sounds almost exactly like how a horse rider would have described new-fangled automobiles.
- andrepd 2y agoWell were their wrong? Car-centric development has been an absolute disaster in dozens of different ways.
- chii 2y agothose disasters were externalities, which i dont disagree is disheartening, but the personal freedoms and transportation capability given by the personal automobile is worth it. Public transport, even good ones, does not provide this level of comfort and freedom.
- morsch 2y agoOh god we're going to get a new hellscape of drone noise which we won't be able to get rid of on account of the personal freedom granted by having second rate food delivered five minutes faster.
- chii 2y ago> hellscape of drone noise on the other hand, if it removed some traffic noise which is equal or worse than drone noises...
- anovikov 2y agoCities don't work like that. When you have less traffic, people start to squeeze in (real estate is rarely a limiting factor), and you get more people and more traffic. People want to live densely, and they will.
- andrepd 2y agoMy, if only there was a better way to transport people in a city besides a 2-ton metal box moved my exploding fuel... Perhaps some two-wheeled contraption, of the pedal-power sort?
- ekianjo 2y agoI can relate with most of what you said, but "drones don't scale", really? If they can scale in war, I can't see why they would not scale for other uses
- chii 2y agoin war, they do not need to care about collateral damage. I sure hope that my neighbour's drone delivery doesn't produce collateral damage if it flew near my property. Otherwise, i will have to shoot down the drone.
- VectorLock 2y agoThey don't have to land safely, not cause liabilities or make return trips in war.