I think this is where i officially lost interest in the segment for U.S. deployment after enough research into FAA regulations. www.thedrive.com/tech/7430/fe...
I remember when this was on 60 Minutes; was at Amazon at the time, and my team was baffled by why we would pre-announce something so obviously not ready.
I found out later the Bezos was supposed to unveil the Fire phone to the reporters, but it wasn’t ready and they didn’t want to waste a PR opp.
Always fascinating how the "Sober, balanced, serious analysis that presents both sides of any issue" method of investigation seems to produce completely gullible analysis
I'm convinced that engineer fanboys will continue to support this project even when it's clear that absolutely nobody is investing in solving the actual problems with the project.
“The attitude was: ‘We’re Amazon. We’ll convince the F.A.A.... The F.A.A. wants companies to come in with great humility and great transparency. That is not a strength of Amazon.”
Amazon should donate the whole system and equipment to the Ukrainian military. That organization knows exactly where to deliver single items where they are truly and urgently required.
“The F.A.A. wants companies to come in with great humility and great transparency. That is not a strength of Amazon.”
Amazon likes to forget that there are more important things flying in the sky than helicopters with shopping.
It's airplanes with human beings.
I’m cynical about this effort. Amazon drivers can’t find the right houses and they’re on street level. Last Christmas a driver dumped all the packages meant for people on my street on my front porch. What will unmanned drones do with all our stuff?
Our house is at top of a hill. Couple other neighborhood streets have some of the same 3 digits for house numbers. So naturally we get packages for them, never mind the street names… guessing drivers just see the 666* & go ‘oh yeah I know the place’
(*not our # but would be cool)
I live in College Station, and we're loving our hourly drops of soup and peanut butter! I feel kind of sorry for the rest of you poor schlubs who can't get drone delivery. It's made my life so much easier.
I'm just kidding; I don't have a driveway or any desire to have a things dropped on it.
Drone delivery just doesn't fit for a lot of areas that people already deliver stuff to - cities would be a nightmare, suburbs might be too diffuse to be worth it. It's great for doing stuff like rapid delivery to inaccessible rural areas - they've been doing that in Rwanda for awhile now, IIRC.
