Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoIt 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
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.
aniki@lemm.ee 7 months ago