How about this: Instead of dispatching drones from a warehouse, how about dispatching them from a delivery vehicle? So the Semi filled with orders drives into a town (doesn't even have to park), and these drones fly back and forth from it delivering packages -- it saves the driver the need to stop at each address, yet it also allows deliveries further from the warehouse.
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Just think, they could sell drone idle time and other captured video to the NSA and other interested parties to help defray delivery cost.<p>Can't sell ads... sell surveillance!
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I keep seeing this sentiment everywhere. I don't know why people thinks this is a joke, that it is: "illegal," "implausible" and "kind of silly". Yes, Bezos did this to help boost up sales and set up PR to help the lobbying, but that isn't the <i>only</i> thing about it. Why are people so stuck up on the silliness of the idea? Have people stopped being able to exercise their imagination and executing on it? Just because you can't conceive yourself pulling it off does not mean someone else cannot...<p>Not only do I think Bezos has the imagination and will to pull this off, I <i>know</i> this is being implemented in places outside of the US. It's already happening. Right now. And if it is happening, right now, is it implausible? Is it silly?<p>By the way, I make a distinction between something we <i>can</i> do and something we <i>should</i> do. I am not sure this is something that is good for the world even though I don't think this is a silly idea. I see another facepalm moment coming up when the folks who have been saying this won't happen start screaming angrily that this shouldn't be happening.
Is it just me or should, "unveiling of the project on '60 Minutes' Sunday carried three important public-relations payloads for the firm.", be followed by a list of three items?
Related: discussion of Zookal's plans to deliver college textbooks via drone.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550765" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550765</a>