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Excludos t1_j3l6jdx wrote

This is all well and good, and I wish them luck. However it's not new or untried technology. This has been tried by numerous companies for years, including big boys like Amazon, and the restrictions, challenges and even safety concerns are too numerous to expand into anything other than small scale test areas. It's a bit like the autonomous Google cars, in the sense that it works, it's been proven to work, but expanding it into a useful business model remains problematic.

Currently, the best use for autonomous delivery drones I've seen is shipping medicine long distances into remote areas, where things like cost isn't as much of a problem compared to the value of the cargo.

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skynetdotexe t1_j3llrkw wrote

Technically I could also see drones useful for delivery to Islands or over water in general but not over land.

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Excludos t1_j3lp8xz wrote

Absolutely. There's definitively some very specific scenarios were drones could be super useful. Pizza delivery probably just isn't one of them, at least not quite yet. Who knows in 20 years

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Captain_Clark t1_j3m7kh6 wrote

Yeah, I’m wondering about people who live in apartment buildings. A drone can’t simply drop a pizza into their parking lot.

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