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

[MotoXGirl]

Pretty cool if u ask me! Shopping sprees with same day delivery! yay!

 

[MissionImprobable]

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.

These items will only be sent to people within a certain radius of distribution centers and are only for a specific delivery window: 30 minutes from order time to delivery at your door. You have to select this option, and I'm sure you wouldn't do so if you won't be at the house.

As to jobs becoming obsolete, that's just how things are. That's part of progression, and further, movements of this type are of value as they mean less strain on non-renewable resources and less overall strain on the environment. We don't have milk men anymore, but we've all survived. Further, this rollout will not be until at least 2015 or later. Dinosaurs will die and change is inevitable.

It is stated in the story that this is for the majority of packages the company ships, which are under a max weight limit. I don't think a secure drone touching down is going to be a bigger risk than the normal slamming and banging that is seen from packages being moved around the city by UPS, FedEX, the USPS, DHL, etc.

 

[hradek422]

These items will only be sent to people within a certain radius of distribution centers and are only for a specific delivery window: 30 minutes from order time to delivery at your door. You have to select this option, and I'm sure you wouldn't do so if you won't be at the house.

As to jobs becoming obsolete, that's just how things are. That's part of progression, and further, movements of this type are of value as they mean less strain on non-renewable resources and less overall strain on the environment. We don't have milk men anymore, but we've all survived. Further, this rollout will not be until at least 2015 or later. Dinosaurs will die and change is inevitable.

It is stated in the story that this is for the majority of packages the company ships, which are under a max weight limit. I don't think a secure drone touching down is going to be a bigger risk than the normal slamming and banging that is seen from packages being moved around the city by UPS, FedEX, the USPS, DHL, etc.

I was just trying to be funny with the last bit. Though seriously, we will all have our jobs replaced by machines at some point. You're right, it's just the way it is. Eventually the only job left will be to maintain the machines, until they create machines to maintain the machines, and then we are all unemployed, lol.

 

[Jmoore1701]

Before you descend into panic (or elation) over this "development", please read John Dvorak's column on PCMag.com:

Amazon's Drone Delivery Fiasco | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

He believes it's just a Jeff Bezos stunt to get free publicity around the holidays. Dvorak points out all the flaws (some mentioned in previous replies here) with the "plan".

 

[liftedplane]

I was just trying to be funny with the last bit. Though seriously, we will all have our jobs replaced by machines at some point. You're right, it's just the way it is. Eventually the only job left will be to maintain the machines, until they create machines to maintain the machines, and then we are all unemployed, lol.

Maybe then we can have a society with no poor or homeless because we are all poor and homeless. Our a society where everything is free because machines so everything for us. Until they get tired of doing everything for us, then hello matrix goodbye humanity

 

[MissionImprobable]

Before you descend into panic (or elation) over this "development", please read John Dvorak's column on PCMag.com:

Amazon's Drone Delivery Fiasco | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

He believes it's just a Jeff Bezos stunt to get free publicity around the holidays. Dvorak points out all the flaws (some mentioned in previous replies here) with the "plan".

Meh, I'll read it when I can, but considering that it's a story done by 60 Minutes that they decide when they run I think it's unlikely it was planned just to drum up excitement, especially considering it's something that's of no real value to customers now.

 

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[xeene]

Lol, priceless!

 

[firefighterguy]

Outstanding! LOL

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