Amazon Plans To Blanket The Skies With Delivery Drones in the Future

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Sometimes people think outside the box, but sometimes they think so far outside the box you can no longer see the box. A new idea from Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon's is a prefect example of this. He plans to develop flying remote-controlled drones which will eventually be used to help Amazon deliver most of the packages you purchase from them in 30 minutes or less.

Just. Wow!

Mr. Bezos announced this on 60 Minutes last night (Sunday, December 1st, 2013). In his interview he said, "Prime Air vehicles will be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road today." Here's a quote from the Amazon official announcement below (followed by a link):

We're excited to share Prime Air — something the team has been working on in our next generation R&D lab.

The goal of this new delivery system is to get packages into customers' hands in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles.

Putting Prime Air into commercial use will take some number of years as we advance the technology and wait for the necessary FAA rules and regulations.

Check out this footage from a recent test flight.

He admitted it will take a few years to implement, but is very doable. If the plan works out, we might one day see the skies darkened not with Terminator drones of doom, but instead with flying robot Santa Clauses. What do you guys think of this wild idea? Is Bezos crazy or just "crazy-like-a-fox?"

Source: Amazon Prime Air

 

[mountainbikermark]

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[Sweettooth]

I actually meant to watch 60 Minutes after football but then I found better things to do. I was wondering what this amazing idea was. That's pretty sick. I can most definitely see this happening in the future...after much protest of course. Makes you wonder, if it does catch on, every major carrier will have their own branded drones, with different capabilities. Maybe one day the drones will fight in the skies for shipping supremacy. The Drone Wars.

 

[pc747]

Yeah I think it can happen but more likely be too expensive. It is cheaper to send it to ups and fedex where they can deliver a truck load of boxed to a neighborhood vs one box to one person. Can you imagine how busy that drone would be around the holidays.

^ok im being a dream killer right now.

 

[tgyberg]

Who's in for backyard drone trap shooting?!!

 

[mountainbikermark]

Yeah I think it can happen but more likely be too expensive. It is cheaper to send it to ups and fedex where they can deliver a truck load of boxed to a neighborhood vs one box to one person. Can you imagine how busy that drone would be around the holidays.

^ok im being a dream killer right now.

But with drones they could do a whole city, fire them from hellfire missiles, oops I mean drop them from guided parachutes. Smart chutes.

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[jspradling7]

Moving targets for every kid with a slingshot.

 

[gflam]

What happens when I want free stuff so I start shooting them down for the price of a bullet

 

[xeene]

I buy too much stuff on Amazon. Sometimes I get 5-6 orders a day delivered to my door. Needless to say I support this idea.

 

[xtor]

This is how big brother can monitor us, without us knowing, and you know who tapped into the cameras, bad idea!

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[Sydman]

Besides the local grocery store, Amazon is the only place I shop. That said, I can't see where they are going to get this to be a viable business strategy. I do however welcome the chance for them to try.

 

[GuiltyBreak]

This just in! High winds from local thunder storms caused many amazon delivery drones to be caught in trees. many local residents going to check out goods.

 

[liftedplane]

This is how big brother can monitor us, without us knowing, and you know who tapped into the cameras, bad idea!

8th Infantry division

because they aren't already watching your every move

Person of interest is not just a show my friend :dry:

 

[EyeOWA]

OK, here's what I see...Uneducated moron orders a package. Watches it get delivered and tries to catch the drone. Moron than loses a hand from the drone. Moron's cousin tells him he should sue. Ambulance chaser is hired by moron, takes Amazon to court and wins $26 million dollars....Sue-happy society we must respect. Sue happy morons, not so much.

 

[hradek422]

My main issue with this is simply that many of the items I purchase from Amazon are electronics, and I don't want to just have my expensive electronics left out for all to see. If I'm not going to be home at the time something is going to get to me, I normally have a note on the door with instructions for the delivery person on what to do with the packages so they're at least not visible, but still left for me to get so it's there when I get home. A drone is going to have a hard time going to my door, finding my note, reading it, putting my electronics inside the tote on my front porch, and closing it up to protect my precious electronics from bad weather.

Oddly enough, my second issue with this, is the fact that it will definitely put hundreds of thousands of delivery drivers out of work. Granted, we all know that eventually, robots will be doing all of our jobs. It's simply a matter of when, but in this economy, now isn't the best time to begin that takeover on this large of a scale. I'm not a delivery driver, but I feel for them here. When the computers start taking over fixing computers...... then I need to worry for me, and the rest of the world, for this will be the beginning of the end for human kind.