Drones to fly without spotters on the ground monitoring route and skies for other aircraft
I can’t wait for the articles about homemade anti-drone net guns becoming the new porch pirate’s weapon of choice
FAA clears UPS delivery drones to fly beyond visual line of sight
Submitted 9 months ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/6/23861764/faa-ups-delivery-drones-amazon-prime-air
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ME5SENGER_24@lemm.ee 9 months ago
holiday@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Porch pirates and crotchety old people.
vector_zero@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Porch pirates and crotchety old people and anyone who doesn’t like to hear screaming propellers outside of their living room window.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Soon the sky will be full of these fuckers. I like the idea of them, but can you imagine? Hundreds of them just buzzing around, constantly.
ShadowRam@kbin.social 9 months ago
to be fair, at the height these things will be flying, you won't hear them on most days.
Gyrolemmy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My mini drone can be heard from 200 feet up easily if you are underneath it. If its 100 or lower everyone around can hear it. 400feet is the maximum allowed height.
devious@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Is it really that different to the vrooming of cars that we have grown accustomed to?
Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Right? Cars are orders of magnitude louder, right in our face and constantly pump out reeking fumes. If these things reduce the amount of trucks on the road it would be a big win.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 9 months ago
There’s no way these things will last.
But it is kinda cool in a Jetsons type of way.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
UPS delivery drones are now allowed to fly longer distance flights beyond the sight of ground operators, the Federal Aviation Administration revealed in a press release on Wednesday.
This is the kind of move that opens the door for drone delivery companies like Wing, FedEx, and Zip to deliver packages across a wider area and service more customers.
UPS Flight Forward, a UPS subsidiary focused on drone delivery, can now deliver small packages beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) without spotters on the ground monitoring the route and skies for other aircraft, using SwissDrones SVO 50 V2 drones.
That includes uAvionix Corp. and, last week, infrastructure inspection company Phoenix Air Unmanned.
The news comes just a few days after Walmart announced it’s partnering with Wing to make deliveries in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
It’s not clear what the number is now, but that’s well behind Amazon’s previous projection that it’d complete 10,000 deliveries to customers via drone by the end of 2023.
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totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Nothing spurs innovation like workers getting a contract that allows them to not starve.
Rhaedas@kbin.social 9 months ago
I didn't see mention of what allowable ceiling of flight this is for, still below 400 feet? I would expect there will be regular flight paths established to specific urgent delivery customers (like hospitals) rather than just any package.
0110010001100010@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I would imagine it’s still below 400ft to minimize the chance of interfering with manned aircraft. I read through a handful of articles though and non mentioned it.
devious@lemmy.world 9 months ago
A lot of people posting that the threat of theft or interference will put a halt to drone delivery, but I wonder if that will really be a problem when looking at the the return on investment. A lot of people have said similar things about self service checkouts but industry keeps pushing on.
The cost of drone delivery will shrink dramatically over time (labour and energy being the two big ones) especially if you compare it to equivalent service levels (e.g. same day delivery) so much so that companies would likely easily absorb the costs - if it all works of course.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
UPS delivery drones are now allowed to fly longer distance flights beyond the sight of ground operators, the Federal Aviation Administration revealed in a press release on Wednesday.
This is the kind of move that opens the door for drone delivery companies like Wing, FedEx, and Zip to deliver packages across a wider area and service more customers.
UPS Flight Forward, a UPS subsidiary focused on drone delivery, can now deliver small packages beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) without spotters on the ground monitoring the route and skies for other aircraft, using SwissDrones SVO 50 V2 drones.
That includes uAvionix Corp. and, last week, infrastructure inspection company Phoenix Air Unmanned.
The news comes just a few days after Walmart announced it’s partnering with Wing to make deliveries in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
It’s not clear what the number is now, but that’s well behind Amazon’s previous projection that it’d complete 10,000 deliveries to customers via drone by the end of 2023.
The original article contains 286 words, the summary contains 161 words. Saved 44%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 9 months ago
Four months later:
Theft of UPS delivery drones causes UPS to halt production and use.
How to hack UPS drone V1.23.8 and install Buzzard CFW!!