Places like Los Angeles are mostly SFH. Most areas are already loud as fuck from road noise, proximity to airports, etc. Nobody will notice a few drones.
If it becomes popular in LA, that’s pretty much definition of mainstream.
Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
Moneo@lemmy.world 7 months agoI’ll bite.
Drones are loud as fuck and if drone delivery became common there would be a massive backlash from the public. Most people live in cities and do not have a yard to put a target on lol. Drone delivery in cities is almost certainly less cost efficient than truck delivery. Land drones are much more likely in cities, or just dudes with cargo bikes like in many European cities.
So yeah drone delivery might “become a thing” but I doubt it will be mainstream.
daq@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is remarkable to me how tolerant as a society we have gotten to noise. We just accept that someone has a right to drive modified motorcycles at 3am with 8 of their buddies.
daq@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
It isn’t legal (in US) and cops do occasionally set up decibel traps, especially in places frequently visited by motorcyclists, but I completely agree with you. Quiet nights outside of city feel strange now.
skulblaka@kbin.social 7 months ago
And that's not even getting into the point of how much easier and less illegal it is to snipe an Amazon drone out of the sky for its payload than it is to assault an Amazon delivery truck and driver. It may not be more common in the long run than porch pirates, because that's also easy and low risk, but I 100% fully guarantee you our redneck population will be out in some capacity hunting for Christmas presents.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 7 months ago
“In the land of the drones, the man with the t-shirt cannon is king.”
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m not gonna lie, this had never occurred to me. But now that it has, it is 100% gonna be my hobby of the future
Apeman42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bow hunting both gives the drone a sporting chance, and helps you soak in that Horizon Zero Dawn feel.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Instructions unclear, built air compressor powered blunderbuss
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m setting up nets as we speak! Going to trawl the skies for goods