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

• hamms@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How many of those were package delivery drivers?

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    • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I know it? What else do I know?

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• 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.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨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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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You know there are places in cities with tons of pedestrians, right? And sometimes things from high up fall on them and kill them, right?

        Also, if they have weight limits, we won’t be replacing drivers with them. There will still be drivers. So I’m not sure how this saves lives.

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