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Jack Dweck

Prime Air - A future drone delivery system from Amazon

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Prime Air is Amazon's last-mile delivery solution for the next decade, with autonomous drones that can deliver packages directly to your house in less than an hour. Two-day delivery is already becoming too slow, it seems 👀

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Reese Brandon
https://www.faa.gov/news/updates... Keep your aircraft in site at all times? Ho do they manage that...
Matt Shobe
@reese_brandon The regulatory environment will need to evolve to allow BLoS (beyond line of sight) commercial operations. But it's already evolved to the point where small business drone ops without a pilot's license no longer require onerous one-off FAA authorization. (And other countries are looser/further ahead on regulations than the US). 2020 should see this kind of delivery as the New Normal in the right locations – maybe not _everywhere_ – but a lot of places.
Shardul
This is awesome. Can't wait for this to become a reality. Amazon already leads the pack in terms of delivery, it would be interesting to see which partnerships come about from this. I suspect Amazon will buy a drone startup before launch to ensure reliability and accuracy. This video looks amazing - give me my sneakers now, @jeffbezos!
Chema
I see sooooo many things can go wrong: 1- Heavy wind 2- Crash with a bird or other fast object 3- Drone gets down by external force (some redneck shooting at it or kids throwing stones) 4- What happens in big cities? its only for countryside I understand? I love the idea anyway :D
Matteo Fabbri
@deambulando i'm waiting for the opportunity to shoot thoose things ! <3
Agha Zain
I wonder how this will deliver to apartment complexes.
» Luis Herranz
@aghazain well, the drones just have to ring the bell, fly upstairs and knock on your door. Or maybe knock on your window and shoot the package inside.
Marcel Bradea
@aghazain you do balcony drop-off. It will take better sensors/precision and possibly a pre-set Amazon landing pad/zone on your balcony (which the owner can be made liable for maintaining clear).... but if I can stop going to the grocery store and have my stuff just pop up at my home I would move to an apartment with a balcony if I had to.
Agha Zain
@marcel_bradea what you said makes sense for apartments with balconies. For others, even rooftop access (for both the drone and the receiver) could solve the issue for the time being for apartments without balconies/patios.
Agha Zain
Reony T
Pretty awesome potential here! Curious to know what you do with the box after its delivered?
sri
Privacy concerns about flying over somebody's home? Is that solved or accounted for? Will President elect Trump allow this technology that can shave postal jobs?
Stowe Boyd
Note that bc of drone regulations, this drone has to fly over agricultural land, not a cityscape. This is the major limitation now on drone use. That and battery technology.
François
This is really cool. I need a garden now :)
Matteo Fabbri
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