And they did just fine plowing up fields by hand.
Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months agoWeird, they seem to have done just fine delivering things for centuries now…
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Replacing the hand plow with the horse plow didn’t needlessly cost anyone their job.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 10 months 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?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
hamms@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That seems extremely unlikely to me.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months 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…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
hamms@lemmy.world 10 months ago
According to The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety:
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How many of those were package delivery drivers?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
…unless it’s in a city.
…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.