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

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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  • hamms@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How many of those were package delivery drivers?

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      • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You asked for a statistic on deaths caused by delivery drivers because you know it probably doesn’t exist. Your mind is clearly already made up, so why even bother posting?

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        …unless it’s in a city.

        Even harder in a city since it would have to nosedive between buildings.

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

        One of many reasons they have weight limits.

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