Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos promises half-hour shipping with Amazon Prime Air

Kent Sharkey

The Verge[^]:

Jeff Bezos is nothing if not a showman. Amazon's CEO loves a good reveal, and took the opportunity afforded by a 60 Minutes segment to show off his company's latest creation: drones that can deliver packages up to five pounds, to your house in less than half an hour.

"Fly my pretties, fly"

ledtech3

I can imagine the reports of them being shot down.

AlexCode

I'm just imagining one of them falling and wrecking something (or someone)... It will turn good publicity into a media disaster.

szukuro

Someone has thrown together a game mockup of this scenario :) https://googledrive.com/host/0B6ep5zmvmqloTVRWUF95OFpCeTA/[^]

ledtech3

well that didn't take long. :) It also looks like i'm out of practice :(

Richard Deeming

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BaeimSJCcAAP2yC.jpg:large[^] :laugh:

"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Dan Neely

Oh please. That's not just fake, but stupidly fake. We all know there's exactly no chance of a worker being punished for botching delivery of your package. :rolleyes:

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

Mike Hankey

Looks like I'll be using Weven for a LONG time!

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Lost User

ledtech3 wrote:

I can imagine the reports of them being shot down.

Modern day pirates ;) Flying over Montana will be a bit like sailing through the Caribean:suss:

Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.

Lost User

AlexCode wrote:

It will turn good publicity into a media disaster.

Bad publicity is better than no publicity.

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AlexCode

So freaking true... :) Even this one that might go nowhere but it's already enough to make more people think about Amazon for the Christmas presents :omg:

Vivi Chellappa

http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/02/amazon-is-joining-not-starting-the-drone-delivery-revolution/[^] Coders need pizzas. Dominoes delivers pizzas that power coders by drones. Jeff Bezos is a huckster who stole someone else's idea and the Yanks think he invented it! :omg: Jeff Bezos makes bozos of TV Anchors!