Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 33,188
Almost none of his points were valid.
Equating stealing something most people can simply pick up and walk off with, with a van with a guy in it or locked doors is simply not sensible. Can you pick up a van and walk off with it, nope, so it's not the same.
Weight that can be carried, I think people will find that there will be a HUGE amount of push back when someone tries to push legislation to let loud heavy drones fly up and down your street delivering at any time of day. I for one think it would be awful, drones are not quiet and the bigger and heavier a drone and it's package is the more thrust it needs and the more noise it produces. As delivery vans and cars get ever quieter and honestly stupidly quiet once they've all gone electric, drones with rotors will never be quiet let alone silent and the idea of dozens of them flying around all day overhead to various places around where I live is not good. Many/most people will hate it.
Chances of things to hit people is the same as cars? What are the chances that a car has a failure and hits me.... while sitting in my garden which doesn't back onto a road, I'm going to go with 0% chance. Chance of a drone flying straight lines from A to B and going over peoples gardens, houses, pavements, schools, literally everywhere, much much higher. The paths they will fly is completely different from cars. Cars are dangerous to pedestrians exclusively on or alongside roads, drones would be able to fail and hit people almost anywhere at all, they can't be equated as similar risk or problem in any way at all.
In theory it sounds very futuristic, in application it's entirely horrible, inefficient and pointless. I can see the use for medical emergencies, if someone phones in saying a family member is having an allergic reaction and they need an epi pen... it's a one off, the noise isn't an issue, speed of response is the only thing to think about, sending an epi pen via drone could save a life. But day to day deliveries because people can't think a whole day ahead and buy like a normal person means they want something instantly, it's just a bad idea. Then using an efficient and quiet delivery method such as taking 100 packages in a van rather than sending a drone for each package and increasing total travel done by probably 70% or more. When all delivery fans are electric the drones will be using more electricity than the delivery van.
No one will want continuous drone noise all around over head all day long every day. Because you won't just hear the drone to your house, but your neighbours, then every single delivery happening to people further away from the Amazon depot than you are but on the same straight line to get there, you'll also hear those.
Then legislation, presuming it will catch up and make it fine is incredibly naive. There are some huge security concerns, the noise problem as already mentioned that will have a LOT of people against it and safety concerns, which are no where near as simple as "cars are dangerous so it doesn't matter if drones are".
Some of the other points too, why does a drone need to go into a building.... errm, huge portions of the population live in flats, I do, due to bad knees if delivery drivers couldn't buzz up and walk the package to my door I'd be screwed. More and more large blocks of flats are being built, drones are going to be all but useless to most people in flats.
As for internet etiquette guide, I didn't see markoboyo being rude, but you called him a plank while also ignoring the oversimplified and mostly incorrect 'ways around" all his arguments... so I think maybe it's you who needs the book.
Last edited:
.
