Not sure if serious - Amazon Drones

Delivery guy makes 10 deliveries on time and he can call in a Reaper drone armed with 4 Hellfire missiles with Jiffybag payloads.
 
Which begs the question

Amazon could send out multiple packets using a courier service

Amazon would have to send out one drone per delivery?

Hmmmm

Can't see it working based on that fact alone...Think about how many amazon deliveries would need to go out?
 
It can't be any worse than Amazon logistics is at the moment. Waiting for a package today that was supposed to come Saturday, it has been out for delivery for 8 hours now and still not arrived.
 
DJMK4 said:
Which begs the question

Amazon could send out multiple packets using a courier service

Amazon would have to send out one drone per delivery?

Hmmmm

Can't see it working based on that fact alone...Think about how many amazon deliveries would need to go out?
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They will be able to use multiple drones for the same cost as a human employee. The drones will be able to operate near enough 24/7 with hot-swappable batteries and will not be impacted by traffic or road conditions. It's going to have some advantage over couriers for sure.
 
Didn't the Master set up something similar in Doctor Who? Although admittedly with six billion Toclafane and a focus on taking over the world than on delivering consumer items. Still, with a trustworthy company like Amazon there should be no cause to fear their achieving total air supremacy over us...
 
Good Idea for postal delivery however I doubt it would work for Food(Pizza, Chinese, Curry, etc...) delivery as I can see the drones being swarmed and then downed by hungry birds!
 
I'll bet if it ever happens that it is mega expensive, even if the service aint that expensive to provide.

I could see these things taking out telephone lines & allsorts, imagine one crashing into traffic on the M1, carnage.
 
this is inevitable (from a technology perspective), you only have to look at the leaps in the technology over the last couple of years in drones, FPV and RC technology to see its a very valid future form of business.

The only thing that will stop it is regulation. But this will soon change as the benefits and costs are weighed up, for example reduced short distance road traffic, which contributes most to congestion.

In terms of the silly things like not being in, well, clearly you didnt read the article, its designed for 30 minute delivery. I think if you have paid for such a service, you will be there!

Battery swap stations could be set on elevated platforms, perhaps above electricity pilons/mobile substations for example to allow longer deliveries if battery technology does not improve at its recent rate.

There are few technological barriers to implementation.

You could be sent an SMS when the drone is nearby, and it would require a confirmation text to do final delivery. Delivery points could be elevated, or accessable from higher floors only.

If you think this will not happed, you are mad :p

Drones are very powerfull, and with clever control systems they can fly with as little as 2 of 4 motors for example.

Check these videos out (and these are old!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQzuL60V9ng

http://www.ted.com/talks/raffaello_d_andrea_the_astounding_athletic_power_of_quadcopters.html

Imagine teams of smaller quadrocopters working as a unit to deliver larger items, working through small spaces, and even when damaged. Its possible, and not far away!
 
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Intercepting is not a problem imo.

They would fly high enough well out of the range of conventional (legal) weapons. Even a trained sniper would have difficulty taking a fast moving drone out at great height.

The main obstacle for me is reliability. Crashing into other drones is not an issue as there is doubtless clever technology that protects against it. But reliability and the possibility of falling out of the sky is a worry. Also, surely in this day and age, there could be adequate security against it being sabotaged and brainwashed into becoming an Al Qaeda drone.

I would recommend an auto dispatching parachute in the event of failure, and a loud warning alarm as it is coming down to warn people in advance that they're about to get a drone on the head. If these obstacles are ironed out, I see no reason why they could not be a huge success.
 
AlecR said:
Would an Intervention do? :p
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If you're **** hot with a rifle probably a small percentage of the time, you don't see many people hunting birds in flight with a rifle though, a shotgun would be better but again they can easily fly out of the effective range.
 
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