Aerial drones are a particularly stupid method of delivery. Delivery trucks, combined with terrestrial delivery robots are a much more versatile approach.
Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Reminds me of an insurance company that wanted to use drones to survey roof damage and in the long run they decided it was overall better to just use a camera on a long ass stick.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 10 months ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Delivery trucks require a human to drive. And despite the insistence otherwise, we are a long long way from any sort of automated driving system. They also operate on a 2-dimensional plane and have to navigate around a variety of structures.
Conversely, aerial automation is significantly easier since it is 3-dimensional and there are not obstacles to navigate. This also means it’s much easier to automate.
Companies like Zipline have been operating these services for many years now with great success.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Delivery trucks require a human to drive.
Ok… and? How is that a problem that needs solving?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Humans are expensive and error-prone.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Waste of resources. A human can do other things besides drive a van around all day. We spend all this money educating people. So they can do a job a person with a 3rd grade education can do?
Been in automation a long time. Have personally witnessed the primary task of a worker being replaced by a bin.
We should encourage anything that gets rid of mindless tasks and dehumanizes workers
snowe@programming.dev 10 months ago
Just so you know, companies already use drones for roof surveys. I work for sunrun and we use them to analyze roofs for solar installations and whether roofs need to be fixed before hand.
ramblinguy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah this sounds like a great use for drones- take photos of high up places that is dangerous to climb to