Not sure if serious - Amazon Drones

Insurance companies will touch it.
I am in the process of negotiating £5 million of liabilities insurance for when I fly. It's going to cost me around £900 / year and this includes cover for loss or destruction of my own equipment (hefty excess for that though).

I do hope the regulations change as there are far too many hoops to jump through at the moment and a lot of them are just "Oh we make pilots do this so we better make UAV pilots do the same" kind of rules and tests which really don't apply to UAV pilots.
Hopefully they won't change too soon though as they keep my market largely free of competition.
 
tom_e said:
I imagine they would have a pretty limited range and you'd pay very handsomely to get your order in 30 minutes from one of these so they probably wouldn't be that popular at least once the initial "OMG I WANT MY STUFF DELIVERED BY A DRONE!!!1!!1!!!11!" wore off.
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It would wear off for you?

Man are you depressed or something :confused:

Also to throw my hat into the ring, what is to stop customers from stealing the drone itself :D
 
The most likely short term solution will be in big cities like NYC and London where a delivery service is setup with a network of launching sites on rooftops. Package gets taken to nearest delivery point with the the rooftop launch site, drone flies to the landing site closest to destination, courier deliver the package on the last step to the customer.

This way you could cover most of london in a 5-10 minute flight and just have people deliver the last parts (a few blocks). Much quicker than a conventional mail in rushhour.
 
1. Order cheapest item you can find.
2. Have it delivered to a remote location.
3. Steal drone.
4. Repeat steps 1-3.
5. BAM - hoverboots.
 
Sun headline:'Amazon death drone bus crash horror'

Yesterday an amazon delivery drone blown off course by a stiff wind crashed through the driver's window of a double decker bus, which crashed into a petrol tanker parked next to an orphanage, incinerating all the little kiddies inside before they could be molested by the wayward drone..
 
Its a fantastic thing. Pretty cheep as well(once you've spent initial outlay), an automated system powered by electric rather than pricey petrol and human. Off course they'll still charge a hefty premium.

Unfortunately we are unlikely to see it in the uk till at least 2020.
USA is much further ahead with licensing drones and could see them in 2years.
 
D.P. said:
The most likely short term solution will be in big cities like NYC and London where a delivery service is setup with a network of launching sites on rooftops. Package gets taken to nearest delivery point with the the rooftop launch site, drone flies to the landing site closest to destination, courier deliver the package on the last step to the customer. .
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How do you get the customers package to the launching site within the specified (marketing) time?

Remember that all the Amazon warehouses are in the middle of nowhere for a good reason - If these drones can only operate within a 10 mile radius that's eliminating a huge percentage of the population.
 
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