DonB Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Amazon Trials delivery by Drone........ http://www.aol.co.uk/video/amazon-ceo-unveils-delivery-drones/518032983/ Not sure if they are serious!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 30801 Posted December 2, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2013 They're serious and they aren't the only ones looking at this. I like the way the drone drops the parcel and the doorstep and legs it like a particularly roguish postman. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffalo Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 The small matter of a free-for-all in air traffic control has not been mentioned. A fleet of grocery delivering planes at one altitude, of clothes and footwear deliverers at another, of consumer goods at a further level - it does not bear thinking about. I shall not be ordering electronics or glassware from any supplier using such technology for fear of being bombed with / by them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhBBob Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Must be a wind-up, surely ? Intriguing, but as deliveries in this neck of the woods are reliant on the postcode, it wouldn't work here ! Our postcode covers about twelve properties, some many hundreds of yards from our house and many built years before or years after ours. Furthermore, as we are descended (I choose my words carefully ) from farm land and buildings, there are no numbers to back up the system, only house names, many unreadable or non-existent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted December 2, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2013 I seem to recall Kent(?) police were looking at drones as a great way to use taxpayers money, but had to give up on the idea because no-one could definitively tell them what licences they needed to use drones for civilian purpuoses in UK. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 75C Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 How on earth is a drone going to ring my doorbell??? Some robotic finger that pops out, perhaps... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Metr0Land Posted December 2, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2013 How on earth is a drone going to ring my doorbell??? Some robotic finger that pops out, perhaps... The Yodel one won't need to it'll just drop the package somewhere and say you weren't in..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 30801 Posted December 2, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2013 Zookal in Australia are also looking at drones Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platform 6 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 I see the Amazon CEO's name is quoted as Bezo - shouldn't that be Bozo? (Oh, and while I'm at it - I'm just off to report myself on the 'Unfriendly Members' thread ) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platform 6 Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 New option needed for the delivery card - 'Your parcel is in the fishpond' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Nothing more than an advertising gimmick. From an air traffic control point of view, it's unworkable. Just as flying cars would be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Yahoo! Targets! Where's mah shotgun ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 I seem to recall Kent(?) police were looking at drones as a great way to use taxpayers money, but had to give up on the idea because no-one could definitively tell them what licences they needed to use drones for civilian purpuoses in UK. Some SWAT-squads/Military tacticians are already using the little quad copters, equipped with videocams and transmitters, for airborne surveillance of crime/terrorist seige situations. When you think about it, there are huge savings to be made over helicopters for that, and road traffic reporting by news crews Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 will it leave rubber bands all down the street too?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fender Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 they are completely serious. not going to happen tomorrow, but the future is bright for all kinds of drones in all kinds of applications. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ess1uk Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Must be a wind-up, surely ? Intriguing, but as deliveries in this neck of the woods are reliant on the postcode, it wouldn't work here ! Our postcode covers about twelve properties, some many hundreds of yards from our house and many built years before or years after ours. Furthermore, as we are descended (I choose my words carefully ) from farm land and buildings, there are no numbers to back up the system, only house names, many unreadable or non-existent. Royal Mail were trying to make some money by the postie having a GPS tracker and getting the location for each delivery on a database that they could then match to postcodes to sell on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted December 2, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2013 How on earth is a drone going to ring my doorbell??? Some robotic finger that pops out, perhaps... Judging by what seems to happen here ringing the doorbell is often beyond their human delivery persons' ability so it won't make much difference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold JohnR Posted December 2, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2013 I think its a cheap PR stunt. As evidenced by the fact that Waterstones has now come out and said they will be using Owls a la Harry Potter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 One assumes that the working plan is low level flight to delivery point, vertical descent and ascent to make the drop off. A single service provider can operate all outbound in one flight level, all returns in another flight level to avoid collisions. How many flight levels available for multiple service providers to segregate in that way over a given territory? That will be something for government to sell on a highest bidder basis. If you want an Amazon delivery by this method, you will have to install an Amazon roof top level 'post box' i.e. drop off zone. (With some sort of shut off device on it to enable anyone needing to work on the roof to do so without being delivered on.) Drones cannot safely enter the 'common user zone' with numerous other randomly moving objects that extends about four meters up from the land surface. Just too much else moving about, some of it potentially undetectable until collision is unavoidable. The restricted airspace applicable to much of developed urban and semi-urban areas will be fun too. The necessary extensive no fly zones where flight controlled aircraft take off and land will result in 'drone lanes' to get around these obstacles. Oh my, they are going to be popular... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two_sugars Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 I want one of them signal jamming devices ! ! ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fender Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 drones could also be used to deliver packages to common pick-up points, such as some variation of the Amazon Lockers that exist at the moment. according to the BBC article on this subject, use of civilian drones will be widely permitted from 2015 in the US and 2016 in Europe. if they are made clever enough they will be able to automatically avoid each other and other things. it's the future. not that I'm happy about it. I can certainly imagine people trying to shoot them down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete 75C Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Yup - every hick with a gun... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 How on earth is a drone going to ring my doorbell??? Some robotic finger that pops out, perhaps...It will send a message to your mobile appliance which will then tell you your parcel is on the doorstep. Of course your 'connected home' will recognize this message and ring the doorbell for you - just in case you don't have any of your 'wearables' on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 30801 Posted December 2, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 2, 2013 It will send a message to your mobile appliance which will then tell you your parcel is on the doorstep.Nah. It doesn't need to go to your doorstep. You phone will give out your current GPS coordinates and your shopping will hunt you down wherever you are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted December 2, 2013 Share Posted December 2, 2013 Connected homes, the portal to hell. The problem is that DoorServ 5.3 has a bug on it that on the bell beng run causes all KitchenWorks v4 and lower to cook the entire contents of your freezer. And that of course automatically invokes Tesbury Restocker, so that if you are little slow detecting this going on there will be removal of waste collection service by your local authority due to waste stream overload, as KitchenWorks auto-disposes all uneaten food ninety minutes after it has been supplied for eating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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