Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 months agoAerial drones are a particularly stupid method of delivery. Delivery trucks, combined with terrestrial delivery robots are a much more versatile approach.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 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 7 months ago
Ok… and? How is that a problem that needs solving?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Humans are expensive and error-prone.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Weird, they seem to have done just fine delivering things for centuries now…
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 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
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And they should do what instead to put food on the table?