Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 7 months agoI disagree with you with the efficiency comment. In an ideal scenario, deliver by air can be super efficient. No road obstacles, shortest path trajectories, hell, the sky is 3D!
It’s been tried before: messenger pigeons.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It can be efficient, but the major pro-land point is: what would it do having 0 fuel?
A car would stop, a drone would drop.
It’s an exception and no one would pilot a drone to it’s exhaustion, but either way holding it in the air is a costy investment.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How do robo-taxis or electric bikes for rent deal with the fuel problem? It’s an already solved issue.
However, you do have a point with malfunctions.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Those don’t tend to fall out of the sky when they run out of power.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Understood, but then robotaxis have run over people without the need of flying.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
E-bikes and e-scooters are better, but I haven’t personally seen an infrastructure to use them unless they are personally owned and recharged at home. Are there stations for them in the US?
Robo-taxis though are their own can of worms. Discussion about their capabilities can take days.
elbarto777@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m not sure how it works in the U.S., but in Europe there are stations in which users are encouraged to go to and grab a recharged battery (for a discount.) I’m guessing they have employees who do this as well…
aniki@lemm.ee 7 months ago
elbarto777@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The first thing you mentioned has nothing to do with fuel, which was your original argument.
As for the second thing, I’ve already said I agreed with you.