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Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.

I’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.

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skulblaka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  “In the land of the drones, the man with the t-shirt cannon is king.”
  
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- spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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
  
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  - Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Bow hunting both gives the drone a sporting chance, and helps you soak in that Horizon Zero Dawn feel.
    
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    vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Instructions unclear, built air compressor powered blunderbuss
    
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- CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m setting up nets as we speak! Going to trawl the skies for goods
  
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daq@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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  - daq@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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