About six years ago when their R&D team was recruiting, I had an interview with them. I could feel how stressful and inpatient the manager was even during the interview. I’m glad I made the right choice to move on. I can not imagine how those talent engineers in the team would feel, seeing their project going nowhere after so many years of hard work.
I was recently interviewed for a management position in one of the companies mention. I have many years of experience, even created curriculum for the Part 107 sUAS pilot certificate, built them before they were even called drones in the late 90s, worked at Part 135 operations, etc. I asked for what I felt was a realistic salary but what they offered was not even close for someone that would have the responsibility to be at the other end of the phone call from the FAA incase of an accident. Their mentality was you just a delivery driver, why do you feel you deserve more?
@@Reno-Senpai You do understand, that if you are from the US or a wealthy western nation, you are a "rich" person as compared to most other people in the rest of the world. That means your criticisms apply to yourself if applied consistently. Don't dehumanise people, rich people are people just like you are. They have dreams and aspirations just like you do. And they care about people just as much as you do. They are not aliens, they are still human. And the only reason why they are rich, is by helping many people, that is how they became rich in the first place.
As a "drone" hobbyist, I can say that the most difficult challenge with using these for delivery is the limited range provided by current battery technology. Its the same issue with electric vehicles (cars). The ideal drone battery (which does not exist) would be: 1. High capacity in a very small weight and volume. 2. able to deliver high current to the motors on demand. 3. safe to use without risk of fire. 4. low cost 5. rechargeable in a few minutes. Current "drones" use LIPOs (a type of lithium ion battery) that partially satisfies 1 & 2 only.
Lol, it's made in 'Merica we don't care about your metric system or anything outside of the USA. Anything outside the USA is just there so we have somewhere to use our bombs. The United States accounts for almost 40% of global military expenditures, with its 2022 spend coming to $877 billion. It ain't for sitting there looking pretty we want to use it so we have to make more for our economy.
@@shatterpointgames BBC should mention imperial units if they have a significant American audience. And it's not a cable broadcast where viewers are segregated by country.
That doesn't strike me as true. Nothing about the pathing that Amazon's competitors employ is more or less niche than what Amazon itself would do. That is to say, the only niche that I can see here would be regulatory, not technical, since the other companies focused on regulatory environments (small towns, overseas) that allowed them to get actual flight hours under their belt. Whereas Amazon was content with an evidently worse approach of trying to fight the regulatory forest head on, trying to cut through it instead of using and building on already open paths.
I wish there were new building regulations that allowed allocated space for drone deliveries for every new house or condo built the same way the house hold mail box has been with physical mail
And I wish these drones used wheels so that every house/building had to be accessible not just by them but also humans on wheelchairs, bikes, etc. This would also solve the problems with noise pollution and people worrying about drones spying on them.
Fantastic! The best in all of this is that these companies, for the better of the progress, will overcome all those hurdles without stopping before people's complaints!
Once the concept becomes more mainstream it is quite likely DJI will release a Delivery Drone model specifically targeted to delivery companies that will potentially sweep away all these smaller drone delivery companies that are heavily invested in the drone technology itself, leaving only the likes of existing carriers like Amazon and UPS who will cease R&D on drone development and just use the DJI model. So anyone choosing to invest on these smaller drone delivery companies should have a rapid exit strategy to account for that possibility. Back when Drones began I was in to RC Helicopters fitted with DSLR cameras termed "Helicams" and when Drones arrived on the scene there was a plethora of small start ups that sunk a lot into building drones, but when DJI released its first models on the market nearly all of those smaller makers got hosed and vanished. History has a tendency to repeat.
Things to consider in the future; 1. Getting drone crash insurance both for property, human and pet. 2. Drone shooting incidents for fun or for stealing its cargo 3. power line damage and power outages 4. drone traffic and noise pollution. 5. Bad elements taking advantage of drone traffic delivery and deliver their own nefarious packages 6. I know the environment will be affected by this, again.
Who is this insurance for? Drone crashes should be 0. FAA won't approve it if it can't do that. There may be a possible crash but not nearly enough to put insurance.
@@ayoubthegreat FAA already regulates commercial flights currently and yet crashes still happen. The point is accidents do happen no matter the laws, regulations, inspections, preparations and so on. It will never be zero. Considering the market potential of drone delivery a lot more companies not just amazon will be flying drones in the sky in the future. Drone ari traffic will increase over time. The insurance will be made by insurance companies being creative with their products like the car insurances they are offering right now. For example. Insurances for your parked car, a shed, a greenhouse. being hit by a falling drone. If you are a farmer a fire on your crops caused by a drone. Your dogs managed to jump and caught the drone and got injured. Or you simply just walking or standing then suddenly a drone fell on your head.
@@themcdougalbugle will the drone always fly at that speed while delivering packages? While drone air traffic increases will the drones and other company drones fly at that constant speed?
Drones can be used for deleveries that are outliers to make more effecient routes for vehicle delivery. Instead of spending the extra time for a single longer distance delivery
Imagine you bought a $2,000 camera and it was dropped from a height of 60-70 ft to your porch. If your camera doesn’t turn on, you’ll know why. What’s scary is that even if it turns and takes pics fine, but after 90 days(camera warranty) the pics don’t come out right or camera doesn’t turn on.😂 If the drone lands to drop your package, then all is good though I bet we hear of drones go missing.😂
I think Amazon should give customers option on how they want their items delivered…either by drones or typical truck. Maybe incentivize drone delivery’s with customers by offering discount coupons for future purchases
@@inquisitvem6723 Companies like Zipline don't just drop it from 60 feet, thats dangerous and FAA wont approve that; they lower down a line and it releases it from less than a foot.
Okay, I noticed this watching this film a second time. all deliveries are out in the open, & dropped by crane. These test homes are in the middle of nowhere. Most homes have trees, poles, wires, and nosey neighbors around them. What is the lowest height you can fly at and be safe?
I see it differently. Imagine you bought a $2,000 camera and it was dropped from a height of60-70 ft to your porch. If your camera doesn’t turn on, you’ll know why. What’s scary is that even if it turns and takes pics fine, but after 90 days(camera warranty) the pics don’t come out right or camera doesn’t turn on.😂
My friend just said if he buys a Leica camera, he won’t buy one from Amazon if they start doing drone deliveries. He isn’t taking that kind of risk for a 10k camera. I told him if he can be at home when the drone makes the delivery, he can catch it to be safe. 😂
This might be a stupid question, but how do you avoid powerlines, high tension wires, or clotheslines? Trees are big yes, And you can use sound for some animals and other airplanes. But how do you detect a powerline or even a clothes line?
Not a stupid question, but i think of a few ways to solve it; 1) camera is able to identify based on the surroundings 2) it can fly high enough that it would not matter in the first place 3) At least for powerlines, since they are permanent, that region could be mapped as a now fly zone on the software But there are many issue to be solved and issues to be found as well
What about multi-layer underground high-speed rail (maybe via pipe or maglev or something?) instead of passenger train or bigger cargo, it is used for small to medium packages but may be that's too complicated or expensive to implement this is just some alternatives ideas and I think much more viable in the far future or near future? than drones covering the sky and it may also could travel inside the building?
The sound issue can be solved a couple of ways. First there is a new blade design that is 3d printed and far more efficient as well as far less noisy. I imagine this design will quickly take over the market especially for large scale operations like drone deliveries. Also they can use a speaker to broadcast inverse sound waves. It wouldn't be perfect but for the most part they could cancel out most of the sound made by the blades. The same technology is used for things like jackhammer operators so they don't destroy their ears. It doesn't just mask the sound, it literally cancels the sound. Like a wave in water being canceled by another wave of equal strength in the opposite direction. Sound works the same way. Even if you can't perfectly cancel the wave if you get close it is much better.
I'm assuming that you're talking about the overhyped toroidal propellers. Those have been shown to not be nearly as efficient or quiet as the MIT team that developed them claimed. Basic tri-blade propellers still outperform them. As for noise cancelling, it just doesn't work that way. Active noise canceling works for a single listener, so you can cancel propeller noise by wearing ANC headphones, because it is possible to analyze the sound waves at a specific point in space and generate their negative, but it's largely impossible to eliminate sound all around a noise source, because you'd need to analyze the sound waves at every point around the source which is not only ridiculously computationally intensive, but canceling the source noise for any observer around the drone would be the thermodynamic equivalent of running the blades in reverse, which would double the power consumption of your drone, slashing its range in half. Realistically, the only thing that can be done is to work on the blade profile to try and spread the energy over a wide spectrum and attempt to move most of it to the frequencies humans are less sensitive to.
@@dsp4392 I'm sorry but you seem to be suffering from a condition known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. In fact there are many approaches to noise cancelation besides what you mention. A combination of these methods could be used to achieve an 80% noise reduction of the propellers of a drone without significantly increasing the cost of the drones to manufacture. For example, a drone manufacturer could use quieter propellers and noise-reducing enclosures to reduce noise by 60%. The remaining 20% of noise reduction could be achieved using software to control the noise level. This can be done two ways, one is by simply reducing the speed of the propellers when traveling near populated areas or below certain elevations. Obviously the drone would travel slower but would produce less noise as a result. Additionally the pitch of the blades could be controlled via software also to help reduce noise at the cost of only a small amount of efficiency. Again only necessary when the drone is flying near people. Simply put there are many methods to reducing and canceling noise besides "putting in ANC headphones". While this is a viable form of active noise cancelling so is tuning the blades and speeds on the fly. I'm sure you will attempt to argue some technicality that "this isn't really noise canceling as some noise remains". However the rest of the scientific community does not agree that noise canceling must be absolute. We can cancel some of the noise actively, some of its passively as with the propeller guards, and some will remain, but at a level much less intrusive to most listeners. As for the toroidal design mentioned earlier, I have not personally tested the design. A friend of mine, he is only a hobbyist, not an engineer, did make a set of 3D printed propellers for his quad copter based on the design after I told him about it. I have not compared any trust, or power usage data, but with the new blades it flies as well as it did with traditional blades and it is much less noisy. So at least that much about the design seems to be true and that's just off some home made 3D printed ones.
In what way, can I ask? Unless you're talking hackers getting into the camera systems? Since any video is used for the drone navigation...not anyone having access to it?
Hmmm, "we're going to have accidents and things will happen, you just work through it" SERIOUSLY hoping it doesn't cost lives or detrimental damage for you to work through it. I love how my stomping grounds in Cali is mentioned in this video. Also, it mentions "certified" UAV aircraft? What exactly are the current "certification" standards? Do you document and file material specs, lot numbers, ect. for traceability as a minimum?
I'd think it would be much more than a ground based electric vehicle. A ground based vehicle has the efficiency of a single efficient route through a neighborhood to deliver hundreds of packages. A drone would have to make hundreds of trips, even if it weighs much less. Also, it is more energy expensive to fly than to drive.
I’ve always viewed airspace as a multi layered construct passenger planes have a cruise altitude of 30,000ft and commercial planes like crop dusters have a flight altitude of a few hundred ft drones could safely fly at around 1,500 to 2,000ft if y’all would think of this same layered flight grid then you could easily get drones up and running
Zipline have made it common in Africa for years. Others (except Amazon) are making strides in the US/Australia, etc. It won't work well in cities, to be sure, but that is a place where delivery is least expensive per Kg delivered.
@@AlanTheBeast100 They made it common for high valued items like blood that AND medicine need to be there ASAP where the supply is short. It is niche basically... Great for bumpkin towns across the US where the nearest hospital is a few hours away or your town doctor needs certain medication ASAP. For average consumer items? We will see... Definitely not worth it for groceries or it won't be cheaper than what we have now. Do you really need a phone ASAP? Willing to pay 10$ for some eggs and milk instead of going to the nearest convenient store... The capacity is the issue. I would like to be wrong but it seems niche to me economically. Edit - resteruants we will see. Hear it is still much cheaper for a dedicated driver.
@@dianapennepacker6854 As stated - it's not meant for high density areas; OTOH, delivering a 1 Kg package in the countryside is expensive by truck (fuel, manpower, time ...). So drones are attractive for such. A niche that saves money and can be scaled makes sense. In the US, esp. flyover states, there are hundreds of opportunities for "final mile" delivery centres that would pay off.
It does have a "why do you need this" issue, but I guess if the price is reasonable and you can get an item in under an hour, when vans would take at least a day, or whatever the trade is there, then _sometimes_ it might be worth doing. I don't think the scale works out in most cases though. It would be cool for restaurant delivery though.
You said it. The why is that drone deliveries are quicker and they are autonomous, so you can wait for it at home instead of having to worry about the package being returned ("no one was there"), or package theft, or having to pick it up from a neighbour. Also, drones are electric. Most delivery vehicles still aren't. And delivery vehicles block roads. Drones don't.
@@Yutani_Crayven That's true, although if we're talking large scale deliveries, I don't see these drones replacing the trucks. The trucks are becoming electric faster than drone systems are being rolled out, so that's not a shift, and so long as there is no immediate rush, a truck will always be a more efficient delivery method, setting out with dozens of packages at a time, rather than just one at a time. Yes, they take road space, but drones take up air space, and if you took every package delivered in a city in a given day and had them all being delivered by drones, you would have thousands of drones swarming back and forth all day.
They're potentially the self-checkouts of delivery. Huge development and unit costs, more hassle for the customer, doesn't handle edge cases well, _but_ you don't have to pay a human. We'll see if it works out.
@@jwlarocque Think food deliveries. Faster, cheaper, more efficient. The current use case Is DoorDash & UberEats, which is just a rip off. Imagine paying $10 for a $9 burrito instead of $26 for a $9 burrito. If the urgency for the product is there, the demand will be there. Drone delivery will revolutionize delivery
I really don't like the way the Amazon drone just drops the package on the ground. That either means a possibly product broken on purpose - if that happens, it means a hassle for me to return it, more waste for the planet, loss of profits for Amazon. It seems insane to me. If it requires more packaging/padding in the box, then it reduces the volume of items that they can ship by drone, and also more waste packaging to dispose of. Even if it's recyclable, it's still waste that could have been avoided by simply dropping the package from a much shorter height. After all, if a human delivery driver is not allowed to drop packages, why should we tolerate when a drone does it? Zipline's method of lowering the package while still keeping the noisy drone up in their air is a much better solution.
Larger drones with more range for remote areas and capacity for multiple parcels may be more sensible in the long run when this type of delivery becomes more accepted, this one delivery per flight thing is quite inefficient. As for delivery method, for plenty of things dropping stuff from a few meters so the drone did not get attacked by your pet is plausible, I would not want 2500$ Carl Zeiss binoculars to be delivered this way, that's for sure, but you won't have the issue of delivery drone crane cable getting stuck, thus leaving delivery drone as a pet toy once batteries run out...
I think this is a waste of time and money. Not bad for medical delivery somewhere far from city but in urban area where's delivered thousands of packages every day I think this won't work, and it is waste of time. Also, there are birds that's living in urban areas and this will interrupt their space and I don't think this will be worth developing for urban delivery. I think delivery storage boxes are much better than drone delivery. We should focus on using less packaging instead of drone delivery which is useless
I'm cautiously optimistic of this technology and it's a shame Amazon aren't pushing it more. I think if it's upscales really well, it can save a lot of delivery time for the customer, reduce carbon emissions, and reduce traffic gridlocks on the road. I think it's the future.
I guess the system is only needed in rural environments. Why bather with urban when the technology is underdeveloped? Besides, an 80-pound artifact to deliver 5 pounds sounds inefficient. After all; the strength of drums is their lightweight. Batteries should be solar rechargeable if they are going to run long distances, mostly during daylight. It makes sense to create their own Batteries or to find something available to other similar products already popular. Raining, snow, strong winds, and hit are probably the task for material engineers as well as producing lightweight parts.
No aircraft are flying at under 500ft other than in an Airport perimeter. Some restrictions are self explanatory others are just ridiculous. Zipline in Zimbabwe was first to do this effectively and it is amzing. Especially for the medical aspect.
Greaaaaat, so instead of unsightly highways clogged with traffic we can all look up at the sky with our cuppa morning Joe, wondering where all the birds have gone while streams of consumerism trail across the sky.
Ummm THOSE ARE LIPO Batteries . Look up Lipo fires. I fly those hobby quad-copters he mentioned, the angry bees. Fun hobby. But you have to be very wary of Lipo batteries. A Lipo fire aint no joke ! And that was a BIG ASS Battery !
Years ago (2015) I did a construction project in the facility that was building the composite shell of the amazon drones, but they were all just sitting in a pile not going anywhere the whole time we were on the job
I think it would be great if the drones could use your phone location to deliver anywhere you are and, if a drone is in trouble it can send an alert to peoples phones in the immediate area to warn them.
Imagine mixed use living with small stores in your neighbourhood, who also handle your parcels for a small fee. You don't need drones. Courier services would deliver everything at this one location. It's safe, secure. No more porch thieves, and you get to meet your neighbours while picking up milk and bread for tomorrow. That is a real solution.
This already exists. There was a time when you had to pick up packages from the post office. People didn't like it. That's why markets moved away from that.
The company that will win the drone race is the one that makes a drone capable of lifting 30 tons (60,000lbs) which would be 20, 40 and 45 feet shipping containers and can be lifted right off the cargo ship and delivery to remote locations and warehouses that sit on the outside of city limits.
the ridiculous Chinook helicopter can "only" carry 10 tons, imagine thousands of "drones" flying with 30 tons above your head meanwhile making you deaf
Based on the pictures and videos showed they seem to fly quite high, can’t they have them set to fly at a maximum, say, 100 meter? Even 200 m should clear them from any other moving obstacles. At this height, and if they manage to crash with another plane in a zone that is not around a landing strip, I wouldn’t blame the drone or the operator per se.
What if companies have an airship (German company Zepplin still makes some) serve as look out for the drones (get around BVLOS) and as battery change stations? Can be powered by diesel engines (well, gas turbines can also use it) running on used cooking oil to mimimize environmental impact.
Why would the station need to fly around? Why couldn't it just be on the ground? How would the drones get packages? Would the zeppelin just be full of packages? This is such a stupid idea lol.
I was referring to african drone companies started by African founder. Zipline started in Rwanda but it is a U.S company and their IP reside in the U.S
In terms of avoiding my dog, package security, and the pure delight of it they have my permission to gently drop my package down my chimney when a fire isn't going.
true those drone killers the secret service use you know some kid is going to make one in his garage and shoot one down over the freeway causing a massive car crash.
yes the US airspace is crowded but if they fly under 500 and not next to an airport why is it an issue. if 500 consumer people flew drones in a town there is no issue!
I'm sure it's not by accident. They can just wait until there's a successful player in the market, and buy that company. That's what large companies do.
the FAA isn't scare of amazon and won't cut corners for amazon B.S. I can already see people using those portable drone killers guns to take out amazon drones and it lands on someone car or on someone's head.
Drone technology is going to progress much, fast. Soon, larger, heavier packages delivery, then human transportation; actual flying "cars", because of delivery service by drone.
I couldn't care less if my package arrives in 30 mins from Amazon. Anything I order from there next day or even 2 is fine, its not a rush. That said, if they can use a drone to do the delivery, it is far better for the environment and traffic in general if a 20 lb drone delivers it using electric motors than a 2 ton van burning fossil fuels and helping clog up the roads. One thing they don't seem to be making any more of is roads. Over the last couple decades road space in cities is basically the same. Yet there are 4 times more people trying to use that same space. A LOT of that is deliveries. If a significant portion of that can be sent into the air, all the better for the rest of us who have to travel on the ground.
@@jbombita I would gladly trade 1 million drones in the sky for 1 million vehicles on the road. This is a no brainer. 46,000 people die every every year in traffic just in this country. Another 2.5 MILLION are seriously injured in traffic. This cost not only 60 times more lives than all mass shootings combined but cumulatively hundreds of billions in damages. This on top of the 10s of trillions we are spending in a constant effort to expand the traffic network to accommodate all the land based travel. Package delivery drones could easily reduce the number of vehicles on the roads by millions over the coming decade alone. They would be completely computer operated with an abundance of safety systems in place, and while it is impossible to imagine that no unexpected property damage would ever occur or even that no death might ever result from the use of drones on this scale, it would pale in comparison do the damage and lives lost associated with the use of these millions of vehicles on the roads right now. I don't care, how fast my package arrives. If it takes 20 minutes or 2 days, its not going to matter that much. I do care if we continue to lose 10's of thousands of people every single year simply as a result of human drivers trying their best to operate on ever increasingly over crowded roadways.
@@K162KingPin 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣. You sound delusional lol. I'm assuming you never actually flone a drone before? Do u realize how loud they are? Thousands of drones carrying 30lbs packages? Yea great idea lol no one will get hurt for sure. You are delusional lol. Bye to blue sky's. Bye sunshine. Bye bye birds. Rain? Storms? Nope those drones will be fine😂.
What about multi-layer underground high-speed rail (maybe via pipe or maglev or something?) instead of passenger train or bigger cargo, it is used for small to medium packages but may be that's too complicated or expensive to implement this is just some alternatives ideas and I think much more viable in the far future or near future? than drones covering the sky and it may also could travel inside the building?
In NJ we citizens PAY to go to a PUBLIC beach n NOW corporations can fly drones for FREE over our houses? I'm charging Amazon $20 to fly a drone over my house.....LOL.
Good luck with that. There are probably already planes that fly over or near your house already without you knowing it. 😆 Also, you did know that land rights don't extend into the sky, right?
Sounds like the safety issues are being well addressed after all you already have a ton of different air craft flying over heavily populated areas and our homes. I would like to see the privacy issues codified into law not just empty promises or some technician swearing he didn’t spy on you sun bathing & put the video on the internet. If your serious prosecute employees & companies violating it. That being said I like the tethered delivery drones but looks like Amezon is serious about solving all the problems.
I get the whole technology thing but I do not see this being cost-effective for daily use when its payload is minimal ! There's no way it will pay for itself to justify the cost as I am sure these big drones are over $ 20,000 each plus the insurance to cover damages and to hire employees to fly them. There are too many things that can go wrong .... Look at the autonomous cars that they have driving on the roads that have caused many accidents. These are more useful to do things like search & rescue in heavy terrain. The only ones that will benefit from this are the companies/manufacturers making these and the insurance company's high premiums.
Don't you hate it when you watch a whole video and never get a clear answer to the title prompt
Drone delivery is a hyperloop transportation tunnel. A Wework service in the making.
About six years ago when their R&D team was recruiting, I had an interview with them. I could feel how stressful and inpatient the manager was even during the interview. I’m glad I made the right choice to move on. I can not imagine how those talent engineers in the team would feel, seeing their project going nowhere after so many years of hard work.
I was recently interviewed for a management position in one of the companies mention. I have many years of experience, even created curriculum for the Part 107 sUAS pilot certificate, built them before they were even called drones in the late 90s, worked at Part 135 operations, etc. I asked for what I felt was a realistic salary but what they offered was not even close for someone that would have the responsibility to be at the other end of the phone call from the FAA incase of an accident. Their mentality was you just a delivery driver, why do you feel you deserve more?
@@Reno-Senpai You do understand, that if you are from the US or a wealthy western nation, you are a "rich" person as compared to most other people in the rest of the world. That means your criticisms apply to yourself if applied consistently.
Don't dehumanise people, rich people are people just like you are. They have dreams and aspirations just like you do. And they care about people just as much as you do. They are not aliens, they are still human.
And the only reason why they are rich, is by helping many people, that is how they became rich in the first place.
@@emperorpicard4901 Or who can see the future.
As a "drone" hobbyist, I can say that the most difficult challenge with using these for delivery is the limited range provided by current battery technology. Its the same issue with electric vehicles (cars). The ideal drone battery (which does not exist) would be: 1. High capacity in a very small weight and volume. 2. able to deliver high current to the motors on demand. 3. safe to use without risk of fire. 4. low cost 5. rechargeable in a few minutes. Current "drones" use LIPOs (a type of lithium ion battery) that partially satisfies 1 & 2 only.
Thank you for this usefull information.
Drone pilot here. You are spot on! 🎥💯😎
Dear CNBC, you have pretty significant international audience. It will be better if you mention the SI units alongside any mention of Imperial ones.
Lol, it's made in 'Merica we don't care about your metric system or anything outside of the USA. Anything outside the USA is just there so we have somewhere to use our bombs. The United States accounts for almost 40% of global military expenditures, with its 2022 spend coming to $877 billion. It ain't for sitting there looking pretty we want to use it so we have to make more for our economy.
You mean like how BBC mentions imperial units? You're watching another countries broadcast not everything is about you
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BBC should mention imperial units if they have a significant American audience.
And it's not a cable broadcast where viewers are segregated by country.
And it would be nice the other way around. But here we are.
Sounds like Amazon is going for a general solution for all use cases, but other companies beat them by focussing on specific niche uses.
@Ikbeneengeit I was saying the very same thing as the video was explaining how AMAZON is going about their process.
That doesn't strike me as true. Nothing about the pathing that Amazon's competitors employ is more or less niche than what Amazon itself would do. That is to say, the only niche that I can see here would be regulatory, not technical, since the other companies focused on regulatory environments (small towns, overseas) that allowed them to get actual flight hours under their belt. Whereas Amazon was content with an evidently worse approach of trying to fight the regulatory forest head on, trying to cut through it instead of using and building on already open paths.
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I guess eventually if one of the other companies succeed they’ll straight out buy it.
I wish there were new building regulations that allowed allocated space for drone deliveries for every new house or condo built the same way the house hold mail box has been with physical mail
Everything has to work together
And I wish these drones used wheels so that every house/building had to be accessible not just by them but also humans on wheelchairs, bikes, etc. This would also solve the problems with noise pollution and people worrying about drones spying on them.
Amazing how quick people are to add more laws and take away freedom.
Fantastic! The best in all of this is that these companies, for the better of the progress, will overcome all those hurdles without stopping before people's complaints!
Once the concept becomes more mainstream it is quite likely DJI will release a Delivery Drone model specifically targeted to delivery companies that will potentially sweep away all these smaller drone delivery companies that are heavily invested in the drone technology itself, leaving only the likes of existing carriers like Amazon and UPS who will cease R&D on drone development and just use the DJI model.
So anyone choosing to invest on these smaller drone delivery companies should have a rapid exit strategy to account for that possibility.
Back when Drones began I was in to RC Helicopters fitted with DSLR cameras termed "Helicams" and when Drones arrived on the scene there was a plethora of small start ups that sunk a lot into building drones, but when DJI released its first models on the market nearly all of those smaller makers got hosed and vanished.
History has a tendency to repeat.
DJI is outlawed from the US
What is your take on the mention of needing good batteries? Wonder if there is something there, that could be planet friendly...and efficient...
Maybe walmart should fix their broken website before they get into drone delivery. Just a thought 🤔
Amazon too.
Things to consider in the future;
1. Getting drone crash insurance both for property, human and pet.
2. Drone shooting incidents for fun or for stealing its cargo
3. power line damage and power outages
4. drone traffic and noise pollution.
5. Bad elements taking advantage of drone traffic delivery and deliver their own nefarious packages
6. I know the environment will be affected by this, again.
Great investment idea.
Who is this insurance for? Drone crashes should be 0. FAA won't approve it if it can't do that. There may be a possible crash but not nearly enough to put insurance.
@@ayoubthegreat FAA already regulates commercial flights currently and yet crashes still happen. The point is accidents do happen no matter the laws, regulations, inspections, preparations and so on. It will never be zero. Considering the market potential of drone delivery a lot more companies not just amazon will be flying drones in the sky in the future. Drone ari traffic will increase over time. The insurance will be made by insurance companies being creative with their products like the car insurances they are offering right now. For example. Insurances for your parked car, a shed, a greenhouse. being hit by a falling drone. If you are a farmer a fire on your crops caused by a drone. Your dogs managed to jump and caught the drone and got injured. Or you simply just walking or standing then suddenly a drone fell on your head.
Bro nobody is going to successfully shoot down a drone moving at 60 mph a couple hundred feet in the air.
@@themcdougalbugle will the drone always fly at that speed while delivering packages? While drone air traffic increases will the drones and other company drones fly at that constant speed?
Drones can be used for deleveries that are outliers to make more effecient routes for vehicle delivery. Instead of spending the extra time for a single longer distance delivery
They need customer service reps who watch the weather every minute
Imagine you bought a $2,000 camera and it was dropped from a height of 60-70 ft to your porch. If your camera doesn’t turn on, you’ll know why. What’s scary is that even if it turns and takes pics fine, but after 90 days(camera warranty) the pics don’t come out right or camera doesn’t turn on.😂
If the drone lands to drop your package, then all is good though I bet we hear of drones go missing.😂
I think Amazon should give customers option on how they want their items delivered…either by drones or typical truck. Maybe incentivize drone delivery’s with customers by offering discount coupons for future purchases
@@inquisitvem6723 Companies like Zipline don't just drop it from 60 feet, thats dangerous and FAA wont approve that; they lower down a line and it releases it from less than a foot.
Thanks Mr. Obvious.
Excellent reporting👏👏👏👏
Does the fact that Amazon's drone looks like it's taking a sh1t when delivering a package have anything to do with it?
Okay, I noticed this watching this film a second time. all deliveries are out in the open, & dropped by crane. These test homes are in the middle of nowhere. Most homes have trees, poles, wires, and nosey neighbors around them. What is the lowest height you can fly at and be safe?
Probably some couple dozen meters above the roof line of any given area. So, different between cities / city centers, suburbs, rural, etc.
9:52 **Lady opens drone delivered box of Ranch Dressing**
Me: OMG LADY JUST GO TO THE STORE!
ranch dressing is available in every small corner store
I think the biggest problem with this is people will definitely vandalize the drones or steal packages off of them.
They will steal the drones themselves. A lot of mean and evil people out there.
You don't see that metal shield
I see it differently. Imagine you bought a $2,000 camera and it was dropped from a height of60-70 ft to your porch. If your camera doesn’t turn on, you’ll know why. What’s scary is that even if it turns and takes pics fine, but after 90 days(camera warranty) the pics don’t come out right or camera doesn’t turn on.😂
If drones do land to drop off packages then that will work, but you have to believe some customers will try to steal the drone itself.😂
My friend just said if he buys a Leica camera, he won’t buy one from Amazon if they start doing drone deliveries. He isn’t taking that kind of risk for a 10k camera. I told him if he can be at home when the drone makes the delivery, he can catch it to be safe. 😂
How about USPS drones to deliver Mail, notifications may be requires for Security
That Amazon engineer looked like she hadn't got sleep for 2 years 🤣
every amazon employee is like that
This might be a stupid question, but how do you avoid powerlines, high tension wires, or clotheslines? Trees are big yes, And you can use sound for some animals and other airplanes. But how do you detect a powerline or even a clothes line?
Not a stupid question, but i think of a few ways to solve it;
1) camera is able to identify based on the surroundings
2) it can fly high enough that it would not matter in the first place
3) At least for powerlines, since they are permanent, that region could be mapped as a now fly zone on the software
But there are many issue to be solved and issues to be found as well
What about multi-layer underground high-speed rail (maybe via pipe or maglev or something?) instead of passenger train or bigger cargo, it is used for small to medium packages but may be that's too complicated or expensive to implement
this is just some alternatives ideas and I think much more viable in the far future or near future? than drones covering the sky and it may also could travel inside the building?
You fly away above them
Drones can used for deliveries what's the problem in that. They can be used on case by case requirement
The ignorance lady at the end doesn’t know the purpose. She suggested we should go back to use horses for delivery.
Alphabet Google wings have delivered over 400000 packages so far in 3 continents and continue to deliver everyday everyday.
The sound issue can be solved a couple of ways. First there is a new blade design that is 3d printed and far more efficient as well as far less noisy. I imagine this design will quickly take over the market especially for large scale operations like drone deliveries. Also they can use a speaker to broadcast inverse sound waves. It wouldn't be perfect but for the most part they could cancel out most of the sound made by the blades. The same technology is used for things like jackhammer operators so they don't destroy their ears. It doesn't just mask the sound, it literally cancels the sound. Like a wave in water being canceled by another wave of equal strength in the opposite direction. Sound works the same way. Even if you can't perfectly cancel the wave if you get close it is much better.
Hello, how can we access this? Our team is building a delivery drone and we need quiet propellers. Thank you!
@@christianmoreno7390 MIT Technology Licensing Office, Toroidal Propeller.
@@christianmoreno7390 www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/other/doc/2022-09/TVO_Technology_Highlight_41_Toroidal_Propeller.pdf
I'm assuming that you're talking about the overhyped toroidal propellers. Those have been shown to not be nearly as efficient or quiet as the MIT team that developed them claimed. Basic tri-blade propellers still outperform them.
As for noise cancelling, it just doesn't work that way. Active noise canceling works for a single listener, so you can cancel propeller noise by wearing ANC headphones, because it is possible to analyze the sound waves at a specific point in space and generate their negative, but it's largely impossible to eliminate sound all around a noise source, because you'd need to analyze the sound waves at every point around the source which is not only ridiculously computationally intensive, but canceling the source noise for any observer around the drone would be the thermodynamic equivalent of running the blades in reverse, which would double the power consumption of your drone, slashing its range in half.
Realistically, the only thing that can be done is to work on the blade profile to try and spread the energy over a wide spectrum and attempt to move most of it to the frequencies humans are less sensitive to.
@@dsp4392 I'm sorry but you seem to be suffering from a condition known as the Dunning-Kruger effect.
In fact there are many approaches to noise cancelation besides what you mention. A combination of these methods could be used to achieve an 80% noise reduction of the propellers of a drone without significantly increasing the cost of the drones to manufacture.
For example, a drone manufacturer could use quieter propellers and noise-reducing enclosures to reduce noise by 60%. The remaining 20% of noise reduction could be achieved using software to control the noise level. This can be done two ways, one is by simply reducing the speed of the propellers when traveling near populated areas or below certain elevations. Obviously the drone would travel slower but would produce less noise as a result. Additionally the pitch of the blades could be controlled via software also to help reduce noise at the cost of only a small amount of efficiency. Again only necessary when the drone is flying near people.
Simply put there are many methods to reducing and canceling noise besides "putting in ANC headphones". While this is a viable form of active noise cancelling so is tuning the blades and speeds on the fly. I'm sure you will attempt to argue some technicality that "this isn't really noise canceling as some noise remains". However the rest of the scientific community does not agree that noise canceling must be absolute. We can cancel some of the noise actively, some of its passively as with the propeller guards, and some will remain, but at a level much less intrusive to most listeners.
As for the toroidal design mentioned earlier, I have not personally tested the design. A friend of mine, he is only a hobbyist, not an engineer, did make a set of 3D printed propellers for his quad copter based on the design after I told him about it. I have not compared any trust, or power usage data, but with the new blades it flies as well as it did with traditional blades and it is much less noisy. So at least that much about the design seems to be true and that's just off some home made 3D printed ones.
It’s scary that the main conversation isn’t the insane amount of invasion of privacy.
In what way, can I ask? Unless you're talking hackers getting into the camera systems? Since any video is used for the drone navigation...not anyone having access to it?
Hmmm, "we're going to have accidents and things will happen, you just work through it" SERIOUSLY hoping it doesn't cost lives or detrimental damage for you to work through it. I love how my stomping grounds in Cali is mentioned in this video. Also, it mentions "certified" UAV aircraft? What exactly are the current "certification" standards? Do you document and file material specs, lot numbers, ect. for traceability as a minimum?
Mention of energy per gram compared to other delivery ways?
I'd think it would be much more than a ground based electric vehicle. A ground based vehicle has the efficiency of a single efficient route through a neighborhood to deliver hundreds of packages. A drone would have to make hundreds of trips, even if it weighs much less. Also, it is more energy expensive to fly than to drive.
@@fitybux4664 I think so as well BUT we might be wrong. They should have gone into some numbers.
Why is this needed? Is this cheaper than 1 day delivery by conventional means?
I never thought that Rwanda would have a better drone program than the United States, but here we are.
It’s a us company
The regulators in Rwanda didn't require bribes to allow the technology to develop.
Sorry, in the US we refer to it as lobbying.
@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 amazon was also not allowed and they are in top 5 in lobbying spend
@@foreach1 with corporate greed and other false promises and other stupid crap
@@hewhohasnoidentity4377 and hands outs needing to be greased with lots of money and other phoney baloney.
i cannot wait for this
I’ve always viewed airspace as a multi layered construct passenger planes have a cruise altitude of 30,000ft and commercial planes like crop dusters have a flight altitude of a few hundred ft drones could safely fly at around 1,500 to 2,000ft if y’all would think of this same layered flight grid then you could easily get drones up and running
Seems like such a simple solution...they have to have at least considered this right??
A very difficult engineering problem. I have serious doubts it will ever become common.
Zipline have made it common in Africa for years.
Others (except Amazon) are making strides in the US/Australia, etc.
It won't work well in cities, to be sure, but that is a place where delivery is least expensive per Kg delivered.
@@AlanTheBeast100 They made it common for high valued items like blood that AND medicine need to be there ASAP where the supply is short. It is niche basically... Great for bumpkin towns across the US where the nearest hospital is a few hours away or your town doctor needs certain medication ASAP.
For average consumer items? We will see... Definitely not worth it for groceries or it won't be cheaper than what we have now. Do you really need a phone ASAP? Willing to pay 10$ for some eggs and milk instead of going to the nearest convenient store...
The capacity is the issue. I would like to be wrong but it seems niche to me economically.
Edit - resteruants we will see. Hear it is still much cheaper for a dedicated driver.
@@dianapennepacker6854 As stated - it's not meant for high density areas; OTOH, delivering a 1 Kg package in the countryside is expensive by truck (fuel, manpower, time ...). So drones are attractive for such. A niche that saves money and can be scaled makes sense. In the US, esp. flyover states, there are hundreds of opportunities for "final mile" delivery centres that would pay off.
It does have a "why do you need this" issue, but I guess if the price is reasonable and you can get an item in under an hour, when vans would take at least a day, or whatever the trade is there, then _sometimes_ it might be worth doing. I don't think the scale works out in most cases though. It would be cool for restaurant delivery though.
You said it. The why is that drone deliveries are quicker and they are autonomous, so you can wait for it at home instead of having to worry about the package being returned ("no one was there"), or package theft, or having to pick it up from a neighbour. Also, drones are electric. Most delivery vehicles still aren't. And delivery vehicles block roads. Drones don't.
@@Yutani_Crayven That's true, although if we're talking large scale deliveries, I don't see these drones replacing the trucks. The trucks are becoming electric faster than drone systems are being rolled out, so that's not a shift, and so long as there is no immediate rush, a truck will always be a more efficient delivery method, setting out with dozens of packages at a time, rather than just one at a time. Yes, they take road space, but drones take up air space, and if you took every package delivered in a city in a given day and had them all being delivered by drones, you would have thousands of drones swarming back and forth all day.
They're potentially the self-checkouts of delivery. Huge development and unit costs, more hassle for the customer, doesn't handle edge cases well, _but_ you don't have to pay a human. We'll see if it works out.
@@jwlarocque Personally, I love self-checkouts, though my local grocery has recently made theirs more of a hassle to use.
@@jwlarocque Think food deliveries. Faster, cheaper, more efficient. The current use case Is DoorDash & UberEats, which is just a rip off. Imagine paying $10 for a $9 burrito instead of $26 for a $9 burrito. If the urgency for the product is there, the demand will be there. Drone delivery will revolutionize delivery
6:28 Not until you come to Formosa/TW.
I really don't like the way the Amazon drone just drops the package on the ground. That either means a possibly product broken on purpose - if that happens, it means a hassle for me to return it, more waste for the planet, loss of profits for Amazon. It seems insane to me.
If it requires more packaging/padding in the box, then it reduces the volume of items that they can ship by drone, and also more waste packaging to dispose of. Even if it's recyclable, it's still waste that could have been avoided by simply dropping the package from a much shorter height.
After all, if a human delivery driver is not allowed to drop packages, why should we tolerate when a drone does it?
Zipline's method of lowering the package while still keeping the noisy drone up in their air is a much better solution.
Larger drones with more range for remote areas and capacity for multiple parcels may be more sensible in the long run when this type of delivery becomes more accepted, this one delivery per flight thing is quite inefficient. As for delivery method, for plenty of things dropping stuff from a few meters so the drone did not get attacked by your pet is plausible, I would not want 2500$ Carl Zeiss binoculars to be delivered this way, that's for sure, but you won't have the issue of delivery drone crane cable getting stuck, thus leaving delivery drone as a pet toy once batteries run out...
IKR? Packages are usually meant to handle a 1m drop and these guys are yeeting boxes from outer space as if they were extraplanetary probes.
Does these autonomous drones have to pass the Part 107?!
I think this is a waste of time and money. Not bad for medical delivery somewhere far from city but in urban area where's delivered thousands of packages every day I think this won't work, and it is waste of time. Also, there are birds that's living in urban areas and this will interrupt their space and I don't think this will be worth developing for urban delivery. I think delivery storage boxes are much better than drone delivery. We should focus on using less packaging instead of drone delivery which is useless
What is the impact on wildlife (birds, etc) ?!?
I'm cautiously optimistic of this technology and it's a shame Amazon aren't pushing it more. I think if it's upscales really well, it can save a lot of delivery time for the customer, reduce carbon emissions, and reduce traffic gridlocks on the road. I think it's the future.
How could the drones leave the parcels at destination and return to base? How about rainy days?
0:39 drops your package from 20 ft in the air LOL
I’m a mechanical engineer
Working on a project-Urban Air Mobility Model…
It’s just a matter of time to see which company comes out on top
You're too funny Bro (it's a compliment)🤙🏼
I guess the system is only needed in rural environments. Why bather with urban when the technology is underdeveloped?
Besides, an 80-pound artifact to deliver 5 pounds sounds inefficient. After all; the strength of drums is their lightweight.
Batteries should be solar rechargeable if they are going to run long distances, mostly during daylight. It makes sense to create their own Batteries or to find something available to other similar products already popular.
Raining, snow, strong winds, and hit are probably the task for material engineers as well as producing lightweight parts.
I sure wish I could just get a packaged delivery from them. Seems next to impossible, with them claiming they can't fit packages in mailboxes.
Way to go Adam Levine!
Zipline is way ahead of the curve. Theyre ones bringing in innovation.
no
I wonder if dominoes and papa John's will eventually do away with delivery drivers and just use drones to deliver pizzas....
They already use self driving cars for the same.
I wonder if dominoes and papa John's will be around after facing the inevitable lawsuits after the inevitable accidents
No aircraft are flying at under 500ft other than in an Airport perimeter. Some restrictions are self explanatory others are just ridiculous. Zipline in Zimbabwe was first to do this effectively and it is amzing. Especially for the medical aspect.
When the whole process is streamlined and organized we will certainly have drone highways for packages, instead of many vans on the roads
Greaaaaat, so instead of unsightly highways clogged with traffic we can all look up at the sky with our cuppa morning Joe, wondering where all the birds have gone while streams of consumerism trail across the sky.
Ummm THOSE ARE LIPO Batteries . Look up Lipo fires. I fly those hobby quad-copters he mentioned, the angry bees. Fun hobby. But you have to be very
wary of Lipo batteries. A Lipo fire aint no joke ! And that was a BIG ASS Battery !
Well , when you look on the bright side at least drones don't have to be tipped.
Years ago (2015) I did a construction project in the facility that was building the composite shell of the amazon drones, but they were all just sitting in a pile not going anywhere the whole time we were on the job
I think it would be great if the drones could use your phone location to deliver anywhere you are and, if a drone is in trouble it can send an alert to peoples phones in the immediate area to warn them.
“unmanned jets”
Jets?! That is such an absurd idea, how did that make it on TV? Jet engines are so much louder and not necessary.
Imagine mixed use living with small stores in your neighbourhood, who also handle your parcels for a small fee.
You don't need drones. Courier services would deliver everything at this one location.
It's safe, secure. No more porch thieves, and you get to meet your neighbours while picking up milk and bread for tomorrow.
That is a real solution.
This already exists. There was a time when you had to pick up packages from the post office. People didn't like it. That's why markets moved away from that.
The company that will win the drone race is the one that makes a drone capable of lifting 30 tons (60,000lbs) which would be 20, 40 and 45 feet shipping containers and can be lifted right off the cargo ship and delivery to remote locations and warehouses that sit on the outside of city limits.
the ridiculous Chinook helicopter can "only" carry 10 tons, imagine thousands of "drones" flying with 30 tons above your head meanwhile making you deaf
Moving faster is always the goal for humanity. We rode horses, then built cars, airplanes, trains, and now drones. Eventually the hyperloop too
teleportation
Except the Hyperloop ain't never happening. The physics just don't allow it.
Which will mean prices will go up to cover the cost of these drones etc.
Based on the pictures and videos showed they seem to fly quite high, can’t they have them set to fly at a maximum, say, 100 meter? Even 200 m should clear them from any other moving obstacles. At this height, and if they manage to crash with another plane in a zone that is not around a landing strip, I wouldn’t blame the drone or the operator per se.
I for one am happy the government is making it difficult. If the technology is not up to par I can only imagine the amount of drone accidents.
What if companies have an airship (German company Zepplin still makes some) serve as look out for the drones (get around BVLOS) and as battery change stations? Can be powered by diesel engines (well, gas turbines can also use it) running on used cooking oil to mimimize environmental impact.
Isn’t helium really rare and expensive as hell.
@@teddyn240it could be just partly helium with most still via hot air.
@@shaider1982 You would still need a lot of it which would not be economically viable.
@@teddyn240no it’s not
Why would the station need to fly around? Why couldn't it just be on the ground? How would the drones get packages? Would the zeppelin just be full of packages? This is such a stupid idea lol.
why not covering also the players in other location like Asia or Africa?
One of those drone companies started in Rwanda. They deliver medical supplies, blood, anti venom, antibiotics, ect.
I was referring to african drone companies started by African founder. Zipline started in Rwanda but it is a U.S company and their IP reside in the U.S
Wow, I didn't realize this was a crowded space already.
great video
Yes to drones!!
Just waiting drone delivery in india❤❤❤
How about asking the people if they want this overhead day in day out
My concern that the drone delivery companies and the the FAA will clear the skies of the hobby drones for the commercial delivery drones!
No safety recovery systems? Not even a parachute? That's a big, noisy DANGER above peoples heads all day long
Knowing the drone drop the package from some height, I hope the customer make the same bad complaint to the drone 🤦🏻♂️
In terms of avoiding my dog, package security, and the pure delight of it they have my permission to gently drop my package down my chimney when a fire isn't going.
Imagine ordering egg from walmart and it’s sent to you via this drones😂😂
How will they stop the drones from getting shot down and robbed? Some COD player is going to pull out a stinger missile.
true those drone killers the secret service use you know some kid is going to make one in his garage and shoot one down over the freeway causing a massive car crash.
Stinger use heat signal to lock on. Why bother using stinger missile when just used an normal rifle to shoot it down
@@khanhnguyen-tt3ff it is totally unsafe to point a gun into the air and shoot, innocent people can die, look up Shannon's Law in AZ
yeah and using stinger is much safer lol
yes the US airspace is crowded but if they fly under 500 and not next to an airport why is it an issue. if 500 consumer people flew drones in a town there is no issue!
17:06 Just like the statelites always above us.
that guy in the black shirt and grey hair needs his own show
Zipline in Africa is leading delivery via drones, they drop medical supplies, flight after flight
Wow Zipline and its modelesque CEO seem to be in the lead in the drone market.
look at this guys face, 0:20 he would love to shoot them down from the sky and you can get a present just like in a video game:))))
before that .. take the weapons away from people hahaha
"Not going to make sense if we have to PAY SOMEONE". They said the quiet part out loud.
Where are the Transporters ??? Scotty beam me up !!! 😁😁😁
Good to know they have good batteries inside those will come in handy
developing world: we have no food
developed world: out of mayo, call the drone
I think the Amazon thought that they were going to be ahead of the game . Also they didn't put the time and energy into competing.
I'm sure it's not by accident. They can just wait until there's a successful player in the market, and buy that company. That's what large companies do.
I used to work for Amazon’a drone program, I can tell you that they have a LONG way to go and safety is NOT their priority.
the FAA isn't scare of amazon and won't cut corners for amazon B.S. I can already see people using those portable drone killers guns to take out amazon drones and it lands on someone car or on someone's head.
It amazon they been trying to getting into different market and failing for the last 5 year, example amazon gaming studio, amazon local grocery store.
Fli will win the Drone Delivery race. We seek to capture the hearts and the imagination of the public. God bless
Drone technology is going to progress much, fast. Soon, larger, heavier packages delivery, then human transportation; actual flying "cars", because of delivery service by drone.
smoking hopium again?
Bruh, as soon as it caries a person it's not a "drone" it's a manned aircraft. Of which we've had thousands of different designs.
Zipline is way ahead of everyone at the moment in the US
We all won when this never happened
Zipline is the leader of the drone race.
I couldn't care less if my package arrives in 30 mins from Amazon. Anything I order from there next day or even 2 is fine, its not a rush. That said, if they can use a drone to do the delivery, it is far better for the environment and traffic in general if a 20 lb drone delivers it using electric motors than a 2 ton van burning fossil fuels and helping clog up the roads. One thing they don't seem to be making any more of is roads. Over the last couple decades road space in cities is basically the same. Yet there are 4 times more people trying to use that same space. A LOT of that is deliveries. If a significant portion of that can be sent into the air, all the better for the rest of us who have to travel on the ground.
Smart no more traffic on roads but your fine with a thousand drones in the sky😂🤣
@@jbombita I would gladly trade 1 million drones in the sky for 1 million vehicles on the road. This is a no brainer. 46,000 people die every every year in traffic just in this country. Another 2.5 MILLION are seriously injured in traffic. This cost not only 60 times more lives than all mass shootings combined but cumulatively hundreds of billions in damages. This on top of the 10s of trillions we are spending in a constant effort to expand the traffic network to accommodate all the land based travel.
Package delivery drones could easily reduce the number of vehicles on the roads by millions over the coming decade alone. They would be completely computer operated with an abundance of safety systems in place, and while it is impossible to imagine that no unexpected property damage would ever occur or even that no death might ever result from the use of drones on this scale, it would pale in comparison do the damage and lives lost associated with the use of these millions of vehicles on the roads right now.
I don't care, how fast my package arrives. If it takes 20 minutes or 2 days, its not going to matter that much. I do care if we continue to lose 10's of thousands of people every single year simply as a result of human drivers trying their best to operate on ever increasingly over crowded roadways.
@@K162KingPin 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣. You sound delusional lol. I'm assuming you never actually flone a drone before? Do u realize how loud they are? Thousands of drones carrying 30lbs packages? Yea great idea lol no one will get hurt for sure. You are delusional lol. Bye to blue sky's. Bye sunshine. Bye bye birds. Rain? Storms? Nope those drones will be fine😂.
What about multi-layer underground high-speed rail (maybe via pipe or maglev or something?) instead of passenger train or bigger cargo, it is used for small to medium packages but may be that's too complicated or expensive to implement
this is just some alternatives ideas and I think much more viable in the far future or near future? than drones covering the sky and it may also could travel inside the building?
In NJ we citizens PAY to go to a PUBLIC beach n NOW corporations can fly drones for FREE over our houses? I'm charging Amazon $20 to fly a drone over my house.....LOL.
Good luck with that. There are probably already planes that fly over or near your house already without you knowing it. 😆 Also, you did know that land rights don't extend into the sky, right?
Microphone to avoid other aircraft? Can they hear electric aircraft? If not that system will be short lived...
Sounds like the safety issues are being well addressed after all you already have a ton of different air craft flying over heavily populated areas and our homes. I would like to see the privacy issues codified into law not just empty promises or some technician swearing he didn’t spy on you sun bathing & put the video on the internet. If your serious prosecute employees & companies violating it.
That being said I like the tethered delivery drones but looks like Amezon is serious about solving all the problems.
Zipline is the real deal, not Amazon
Give them sll a go … one type for Walmart one for Amazon and so on … The feedback will decide. How exciting
I get the whole technology thing but I do not see this being cost-effective for daily use when its payload is minimal ! There's no way it will pay for itself to justify the cost as I am sure these big drones are over $ 20,000 each plus the insurance to cover damages and to hire employees to fly them. There are too many things that can go wrong .... Look at the autonomous cars that they have driving on the roads that have caused many accidents. These are more useful to do things like search & rescue in heavy terrain. The only ones that will benefit from this are the companies/manufacturers making these and the insurance company's high premiums.
Amazon listens to their customers?? Ya right. How many million complaints have they gotten about wasteful package sizing?!?!
Sweet this will be better than duck season
Calsee Hendrickson is definitvely the wrong choice for the job 😂