Amazon Prime Air - Drones fly packages to your house

Meanwhile at Amazon
http://kotaku.com/amazon-launches-deliv ... Socialflow

The BBC are running a story on that as well. It'll never happen. Far too many potential issues.

I'd shoot one down. :shifty:

Fatal Exception wrote:Meanwhile at Amazon
http://kotaku.com/amazon-launches-deliv ... Socialflow

So rather than improve things for workers, just get robots and drones to do all the work. :lol:

It looks like the kind of thing a big site would do as an April Fools' Day gag.

Chavs would have them smashed to strawberry float

I'd try to shoot them out of the sky, and I only have airguns. Imagine what yanks will do.

Fatal Exception wrote:I'd try to shoot them out of the sky, and I only have airguns. Imagine what yanks will do.

Why would you?

Moggy wrote:
Fatal Exception wrote:Meanwhile at Amazon
http://kotaku.com/amazon-launches-deliv ... Socialflow

So rather than improve things for workers, just get robots and drones to do all the work.

I saw this earlier. Surely this is a pisstake? It's ridiculous.

Moggy wrote:
Fatal Exception wrote:I'd try to shoot them out of the sky, and I only have airguns. Imagine what yanks will do.

Why would you?

More challenging that hitting postmen.

Moggy wrote:
Fatal Exception wrote:I'd try to shoot them out of the sky, and I only have airguns. Imagine what yanks will do.

Why would you?

Falsey wrote:Chavs would have them smashed to strawberry float

Answered.

I just accidentally a new thread :slol:

I'd like to see Yodel use these.

People will shoot at them, steal them and hack them, but it's still a strawberry floating cool idea that would more than anything else make me feel like I'm living in the future we should be living in.

I was thinking about other uses for them. Delivering bombs? Weapons? Drugs? :dread:

Alvin Flummux wrote:People will shoot at them, steal them and hack them, but it's still a strawberry floating cool idea that would more than anything else make me feel like I'm living in the future we should be living in.

I agree.

Robots delivering parcels would be f*cking awesome no matter how many problems there were.

Fatal Exception wrote:I was thinking about other uses for them. Delivering bombs? Weapons? Drugs?

You mean, just like any other method of delivering parcels?

Moggy wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:People will shoot at them, steal them and hack them, but it's still a strawberry floating cool idea that would more than anything else make me feel like I'm living in the future we should be living in.

I agree.

Robots delivering parcels would be f*cking awesome no matter how many problems there were.

Surely it is now only a matter of time until we have a Jurassic Park.

Don't know about the drones actually delivering stuff but I can imagine them collecting small items from storage and taking them to staff to pack and post.

Fatal Exception wrote:I was thinking about other uses for them. Delivering bombs? Weapons? Drugs?

Of course, but it's way less conspicuous to hide them in the lining of the boot of a car than to strap them to quad/octocopters and let everyone outside at the time know your illegal shipment of gooseberry fool has arrived. :lol:

To deter theft, I assume they could be equipped with anti-theft shock devices and alarms and trackers and gooseberry fool (or self-destruct stuff so it's a dead loss to the thief), and to avoid shooting down, well, they're pretty agile, so I'm sure they could automatically signal the emergency services and initiate a 'go away you're being shot at' protocol.

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