Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 10 months agoIn all of the above, where either the landlord or the recipient specifies (and when it’s decided by the landlord, the buyer gets precise location info to pass to Amazon when buying stuff, which would include instructions for how to retrieve it after delivery)
In all cases the property owner would be responsible for ensuring there’s a suitable landing location. Preferably combined with lockboxes which drones can directly deposit packages to.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What problem does a drone delivering a package to a lockbox instead of a person doing it solve? Other than Amazon’s problem of spending money to pay human beings wages?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
If it’s a box easily reachable from the road, not much. In places with bad road infrastructure, it can save a fair amount of time
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ok, but that’s not where they’re testing it or what they appear to be trying to achieve. So that doesn’t really apply to this specific program.