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Amazon to test same day delivery with flying unmanned drones soon. Seen it on the news this morning. In the video the drone delivered on someone’s front lawn or back yard. What do you guys think of a unmanned robot delivering your package?
I saw that yesterday. Pretty cool
I wouldn’t know what to expect with a drone flying around. I doubt it would go over too well in urban areas
I think it’s a cool idea but it wouldn’t work for me because I live in a condo and dropping it off in the front lawn would just be asking for it to get stolen. Unless it could navigate up and under the stairway without crashing into a wall.
Lol if i order a 300$ fuel sawmill, a drone better not be carrying it, Milwaukee is tough, but if it falls that far, Milwaukee may be dow for the count haha!
The drone can only deal with things less than 5 pounds so its only really useful for tiny things. What I wouldn’t mind is if Lowes or Home Depot had this how many times do you realize your missing some stupid fitting or screw you need to finish your project. I buy so much extra stuff and end up returning it just because I don’t want to be short possibly.
DR99 wrote:
The drone can only deal with things less than 5 pounds so its only really useful for tiny things. What I wouldn’t mind is if Lowes or Home Depot had this how many times do you realize your missing some stupid fitting or screw you need to finish your project. I buy so much extra stuff and end up returning it just because I don’t want to be short possibly.
Ohh haha, well then thats not a bad idea, and yeah if you could just call up lowes and they would send one over instead of having to drive all the way over there.
Amazon is currently in a testing phase for the same day delivery drones. If it becomes successful, other retailers following seems likely. I wonder if someone like Lowe’s and hd do the same if it would only offer drones delivering from their online warehouses or retail stores or both. I would expect drone shipping to be very expensive since it is good for same day delivery so it might be more convenient to pick up at the store although I’m on the same boat as you guys and over buy because man these little trips for odds and ends are so time consuming.
How close do you have to be to have the drone deliver anything
You have to be in a same day delivery zone and even then only certain markets will have it
I highly doubt I will be able to get it. I imagine the drones will be very expensive.
As cool as it sounds, it’s just another trick to cut someone out of a job.
Wow I never of this before, but just looked it up. Pretty wild.
DR99 wrote:
The drone can only deal with things less than 5 pounds so its only really useful for tiny things. What I wouldn’t mind is if Lowes or Home Depot had this how many times do you realize your missing some stupid fitting or screw you need to finish your project. I buy so much extra stuff and end up returning it just because I don’t want to be short possibly.
That would be awesome. I am in the same boat
Conductor562 wrote:
As cool as it sounds, it’s just another trick to cut someone out of a job.
Agree 100% its like the red light cameras down here, they are at every intersection, and the little dirty secret is the company that ownes the cameras get a certain percentage of the tickets given out.
ChaseRogers wrote:
Agree 100% its like the red light cameras down here, they are at every intersection, and the little dirty secret is the company that ownes the cameras get a certain percentage of the tickets given out.
Figures
Robots are taking over. Look at all the jobs self check out machines have taken from cashiers
Javier wrote:
Robots are taking over. Look at all the jobs self check out machines have taken from cashiers
That’s why I never use them unless I have no other option.
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Lol. That was almost exactly what I saw in my mind when I first read about the drones.
Love the comic. Those red light camera SUCK. I thought they were only by us. I have had three this year and it’s a joke. $300 out the window. When they first put them up, we were told they were to cut down on traffic accidents. Of course we had no say. They did a study by us. They looked at 29 red light cameras and found out in only one intersection reduced accidents. 7 had an increase in accidents and the rest was no change. A money making machine, it sucks. OK sorry about my rant, but its BS.
Don’t get me started on red light cameras. Google red light cameras Baltimore you will see what a joke they are :angry:
I’ve had pretty good luck versus traffic cams. Blew a through a toll booth up around Patterson, NJ last summer, but no ticket ever arrived. I feel no guilt whatsoever about this after paying the blood sucking bastards $20+ to use the Jersey Turnpike for 40 minutes to bypass NYC only to get stuck on the George Washington Bridge and in a tunnel in the Bronx for over 3 hours. Driving in New England sucks!
There was talk about red light camera’s and speed cameras here in Michigan, and being the motor city it didn’t go over well it was shut down right away. They wanted to try and bring back front car license plates that wasn’t received well either as it makes your car look like ass when you use them.
They even have them here. There are only two stoplights in our town. I don’t think anyone has got a ticket though. I thought they were security cameras at first.
They cause more ACCIDENTS!!!!People are now,including my self, see a yellow light and instead of going through, slamming on my brakes because i dont want a ticket. then people behind you rearend you, its the biggest scam, search palm coast red light cameras, you will here plenty of bitching haha!
Now we have those self parking cars and Google and others are working on cars that drive themselves on the streets. I can only imagine all the accidents and lawsuits
I don’t think the self parking cars work well though.
Yep! And, next thing you know those damned violation cameras will be all along the freeways citing speeders.
And, if you think no one knows if or when you’re speeding if the cops aren’t watching, your OnStar knows. Even if you aren’t subscribing to their services, if there is one of those things in your vehicle, everything your vehicle does and every place it goes gets logged.
So much for happy motoring!
We have them here on our freeways. They have then in the work zones.
regopit wrote:
We have them here on our freeways. They have then in the work zones.
Yea, I though one had me last time I was up that way.