That’s a great point. Where are all those delivery drones? Lol
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ch00f@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Amazon announced using drones in 2014. In pop culture, drone delivery is like an assumed common practice. Yet fucking nobody gets their packages delivered by drone. It’s been over a decade.
These robots are vaporware. Amazon will get a stock bump and that’s the whole point.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
andybytes@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
You are wise
Zetta@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Amazon just rolled out their first production drone delivery SSD site in Phoenix. It’s sorta shot though.
Zipline is way more interesting and I can wait for them to go live in my area.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Airspace rules are a huge factor there. I see delivery robots on the sidewalk often enough though.
I suspect most companies are still waiting out the testing and waiting for costs to be reduced.
Buckshot@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yeah, humans regularly deliver stuff wrong on our street. There is no way robots will manage. I get packages for both by neighbours and they get mine more often than correct deliveries and one of my neighbours is a business.
Dojan@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
At my old workplace we ended up getting like a thousand toilet seats delivered to us. We were a web publishing firm.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Perhaps it wasn’t an accident… 😂
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Stop redirecting them. Make it cost them.
Tell your neighbors to file an “it arrived late” or “it didn’t arrive” complaint. Get two and send one back. Their fault for being shit companies.
If something is delivered to you by mistake, it’s not your responsibility to fix the mistake, you just got free stuff.
If it goes through USPS, it might be a federal offense to open stuff delivered via USPS, but is that true of third party parcel delivery? Almost certainly not, because USPS is a government org and those third party shit delivery companies aren’t…
So now any package that’s delivered to me by anyone other than USPS… it’s mine now, and I open it to see if I want whatever trash my neighbors are buying.
I used to try to fix the problem… but then I realized it’s NOT MY PROBLEM.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What makes you think you can’t have individualized instructions for harder to reach addresses? After the first failure it’s pretty trivial to go out and fix it. Google does far more work maintaining maps and directions services.
Zetta@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
What you just described is humans causing the issue, drome delivery would absolutely solce your problem.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
The drone’s only as good as its software, the map it’s using, and the address data it’s given. All of which were created by fallible humans.
Ain’t it fun having turtles all the way down?
Zetta@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
43.9454776, -123.5393014
^ no address, GPS is very very precise.
ch00f@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even as pitched, you still have to print out a QR code and staple it to your front lawn for every package. Presumably, they want you to be home for it since it’s dropped out in the open and might bounce into the street.
Zetta@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Amazon’s drone delivery is trash, you’re correct. But eventually it will be significantly better than humans, input gps location and the product will be at that exact location give or take 1 foot
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Down voted for the obvious observation. A drone just needs to get explicit instructions ones a report is filled and it won’t be an issue. Google does more work on Google maps IMO.