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

• Fluke@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While people will undoubtedly take the piss, for a number of reasons, it’s less energy expenditure / lower footprint than you getting in your car/truck and going to the store and getting them yourself.

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  • ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If you factor in all the logistics and systems necessary to run the drone operations and all associated functions, is it likely to be much of a saving?

    I could see something like this as useless for medical prescription delivery, but that comes with its own issues and dangers.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, almost definitely. Even if those systems have a relatively high power draw, they’re still not being powered by a low efficiency ice engine but are being powered by a grid that’s only getting greener. Also factor in the fact that a car+person is minimum about 1100kg that needs to be transported as opposed to the often 500ish g items needed plus the weight of the drone

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  • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Would it be less energy expenditure than a delivery van making multiple stops on its way to deliver you your bag of chips?

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