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

• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Define “just fine”? Needless deaths and property damage are caused by human drivers all the time. I mean we could deliver things “just fine” on foot but everyone would be waiting a lot longer…

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All the time? I’d like to see the statistics on deaths caused by delivery drivers.

    And I’m not sure why you think similar things wouldn’t happen with drones.

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    • hamms@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      According to The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety:

      A total of 4,714 people died in large truck crashes in 2021, a 17 percent increase compared with 2020. Sixteen percent of these deaths were truck occupants, 68 percent were occupants of cars and other passenger vehicles, and 15 percent were pedestrians, bicyclists or motorcyclists.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        How many of those were package delivery drivers?

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      …why would they? Even in the rare occurrence that it were to fall out of the sky there’s very little chance it would hit anyone. And even in the exceptionally rare occurrence that it were to hit someone, they’re incredibly light and unlikely to cause serious damage, much less kill anyone.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Even in the rare occurrence that it were to fall out of the sky there’s very little chance it would hit anyone.

        …unless it’s in a city.

        And even in the exceptionally rare occurrence that it were to hit someone, they’re incredibly light and unlikely to cause serious damage, much less kill anyone.

        …unless it’s a large drone carrying a heavy package.

        If we’re going to replace delivery drivers with drones, they have to be able to carry more than a single five-pound item.

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• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And they did just fine plowing up fields by hand.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Replacing the hand plow with the horse plow didn’t needlessly cost anyone their job.

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How did you determine this? Also why are you assuming a job is in itself a good thing instead of what the job does being a good thing?

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because the same farmer was plowing the same field.

        And a job is better than no job in the Western world if you want to eat and have a roof over your head.

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    • hamms@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That seems extremely unlikely to me.

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