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

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It can’t be allowed to fly too close to people, and there’s also concerns with interfere, collisions, animals, etc

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably loss of signal from GPS for one, and there are far more obstacles like power lines that can be hit below 12 feet.

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  • ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Show me where power lines are below 12 feet.

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Here points and gets zapped dead

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Really. Did you just say I couldn’t use the very power lines I was indirectly referencing in order to make yourself right?

      That’s like saying “there’s no water on land except for the lakes, and you can’t talk about them. “

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  • MuffinHeeler@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Might be a stupid idea, but maybe a cable that extends 12ft down and releases the object at ground level or close to, then retracts to the drone. Surely they have thought of this though

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• 5gruel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Having built commerical drones, it’s mainly two things, obstacles and ground effect.

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