Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy.
You need to be home to put out the landing target and to make sure that a porch pirate doesn’t make off with your item or that it doesn’t roll into the street (which happened once to Lord and Silverman). But your car can’t be in the driveway. Letting the drone land in the backyard would avoid some of these problems, but not if there are trees.
Amazon has also warned customers that drone delivery is unavailable during periods of high demand for drone delivery.
Reminds me of an insurance company that wanted to use drones to survey roof damage and in the long run they decided it was overall better to just use a camera on a long ass stick.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As someone who frequently orders one can of soup, this is excellent news.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Dropping a can of soup 12ft onto a driveway seems bad for the can and for the driveway.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Self-opening soup can
Player2@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Just give it a tiny parachute
FaceDeer@kbin.social 7 months ago
It'll be in Amazon packaging.
zephr_c@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m pretty sure a twelve foot drop onto concrete isn’t good for a can of soup. Maybe it’d work for a T-shirt?
FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Or a beer… As long as it’s Lite Beer!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As long as you don’t leave your car in the driveway.
dojan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
People buy clothes off of Amazon?
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
man killed by falling soup can which he ordered on Amazon
EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 7 months ago
For those of us who order one can of beer, please wish us luck even we go to open it
sour@kbin.social 7 months ago
am cook instead