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I may not have sufficiently thought this through, but what about having them take off from and return to mobile flatbed trucks? Use them for last-mile delivery
by twoodfin 13y ago
I may not have sufficiently thought this through, but what about having them take off from and return to mobile flatbed trucks? Use them for last-mile delivery rather than all the way from the warehouse.
- ye 13y agoI doubt FAA would ever allow that. It's a cool idea, but imagine a drone hitting a wire and crashing into a car on the opposite lane. It will kill.
- twoodfin 13y agoIt wouldn't have to be while the vehicle was in motion on public roads. Think mobile warehouse: Pull into a parking area, launch the drones, collect the drones, reload. I dunno how many dozens of packages you could deliver within a mile radius or so, but it would be a lot more than the driver could drop off on his own, which is the point. And maybe someday you don't even need a driver. If this idea is going to work at all (and that's a big if) these things were always going to have to fly over roads and land in driveways.