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So amazon put out a video on how their upcoming drone delivery system (Amazon Prime Air) will work.

 

 

looking at the video, It looks like it will determine the landing area by scanning for a clear area and more importantly where the user puts the landing pad at.

 

 

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I could see this going down... Get it? Down? 

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I sometimes wonder if Amazon *really* knows what they're getting into...

 

If it does takeoff, so many people are going to lose their jobs... If I had stock in UPS or something, I'd bail-out now since Amazon is going to be taking the wind right out from underneath your wings.

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What about the hillbillies that might shoot them down because they think its an alien or something? 

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What about the hillbillies that might shoot them down because they think its an alien or something? 

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the bot will engage "fracas" mode.

Guess we'll be seeing a lot more hillbilly monster sightings then...

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I sometimes wonder if Amazon *really* knows what they're getting into...

 

If it does takeoff, so many people are going to lose their jobs... If I had stock in UPS or something, I'd bail-out now since Amazon is going to be taking the wind right out from underneath your wings.

That's economics. Fields lose their usefullness and others grow. Think of all the jobs created for people to design, test, maintain, and build the Amazon drones.

 

I'm sure when the automobile was getting big farriers (someone who trims horse hooves) were worried about their jobs. 

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I sometimes wonder if Amazon *really* knows what they're getting into...

 

If it does takeoff, so many people are going to lose their jobs... If I had stock in UPS or something, I'd bail-out now since Amazon is going to be taking the wind right out from underneath your wings.

this can only do very short trips and would require a drone launching warehouse in every town to put regular services out of business.

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didn't expect clarkson there. how goes top gear with amazon at the moment? 

 

What about the hillbillies that might shoot them down because they think its an alien or something? 

 

first thing i thought of. 

drones, drones everywhere

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What about the hillbillies that might shoot them down because they think its an alien or something? 

that's when skynet becomes self aware and fights back

 

 

I sometimes wonder if Amazon *really* knows what they're getting into...

 

If it does takeoff, so many people are going to lose their jobs... If I had stock in UPS or something, I'd bail-out now since Amazon is going to be taking the wind right out from underneath your wings.

 

I happen to work for UPS and I don't see this completely destroying my job. This air service is a premium service. Requires prime and extra charge for this delivery. In the short term, there is little threat to my job. If they expanded this and made it really cheap, then it could eat up about 5 or 10% of our market share.

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I sure hope these things fly very high​, otherwise we're going to hear endless stories on the news about stolen packages. One could easily shoot it down.

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That's economics. Fields lose their usefullness and others grow. Think of all the jobs created for people to design, test, maintain, and build the Amazon drones.

 

I'm sure when the automobile was getting big farriers (someone who trims horse hooves) were worried about their jobs. 

 

that's when skynet becomes self aware and fights back

 

 

 

I happen to work for UPS and I don't see this completely destroying my job. This air service is a premium service. Requires prime and extra charge for this delivery. In the short term, there is little threat to my job. If they expanded this and made it really cheap, then it could eat up about 5 or 10% of our market share.

Not going to lie, my statement was just so I could make bad puns.

 

Seriously though, I doubt it'll be very damaging to UPS, but it will take a chunk of business from shipping companies.

 

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Welp, guess people can go christmas shopping with a sniper rifle then.

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I don't see this working in highly populated area like big cities. Great for smaller density city/village.

It won't be in cities. It's already really efficient to deliver packages to densely populated areas, because of the existing transportation. The drone program is their anticipated most cost-effective way to cover the "last mile" in rural or suburban areas.

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Now we need a video of May explaining the way the drone works.

And Hammond riding one /s.

 

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Exciting future :) Im not gonna witness any drones flying around my area because closest Amazon warehouse is way too far away.

 

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I called this months ago when they first announced the drone delivery, you were going to place a mark where you want the drone to land.  

 

Although I said that it was going to be a QR code.

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Haha. Barnacules commented on the YouTube video.

 

I hope Amazon is prepared to lose each and every one of these. They are all going to be shot down with subsonic .22 LR or BB guns and this new design is a very visible and large target that is easy to hit. I think what Amazon is trying to do is really cool but the criminal element is going to make short work of this.

 

He's joking right? I hear this argument all the time when Drone delivery is mentioned. As a civilized society, we've managed to get along pretty well allowing parcels to be delivered. We don't see many postmen being robbed at gunpoint, we don't see many delivery drivers being mugged. Why do people think if drones are involved everybody is gonna lose their shit and start shooting them? Haha.

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Haha. Barnacules commented on the YouTube video.

 

 

 

 

He's joking right? I hear this argument all the time when Drone delivery is mentioned. As a civilized society, we've managed to get along pretty well allowing parcels to be delivered. We don't see many postmen being robbed at gunpoint, we don't see many delivery drivers being mugged. Why do people think if drones are involved everybody is gonna lose their shit and start shooting them? Haha.

 

Because you're shooting down a drone, not a person. This'll just make it incredibly easy, especially if you don't live in a dense populated area with no one around to watch. Just comes down to how desperate people are.

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Haha. Barnacules commented on the YouTube video.

 

 

 

 

He's joking right? I hear this argument all the time when Drone delivery is mentioned. As a civilized society, we've managed to get along pretty well allowing parcels to be delivered. We don't see many postmen being robbed at gunpoint, we don't see many delivery drivers being mugged. Why do people think if drones are involved everybody is gonna lose their shit and start shooting them? Haha.

Civilized or not, there are plenty of buffoons on this planet that would not hesitate to commit such an act. 

 

And also, you're comparing a drone to human beings? 

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Let's just hope the landing pad is clear of toddlers.

 

Toddlers are the landing pad. Gotta land safely, ya know?

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