Amazon Prime Drone Delivery
Video. This has a slow start, but the
balance of the video is very telling – it is the future, perhaps, of home
delivery.
1.
The drone is
loaded in an Amazon warehouse, more or less automatically with a special
looking blue “Amazon Air” box
2.
The drone then
flies vertically out of the warehouse through a hole in the roof.
3.
One up in the
air, it switches to a horizontal type propulsion and can fly 15 miles (and
back).
4.
The customer puts
a special piece of rubber in the yard, with the Amazon logo (and I presume much
more inside the rubber, to guide the drone to the precise drop zone)
5.
A notice to the
customer’s iPhone or iPad tells them the drone is on the way, so “put out the
rubber mat for landing”
6.
The drone, being
smart, avoids all obstacles on the way, flying rather low, and then lands on
the rubber mat and drops the package onto the mat, then flies away and back to
the warehouse for another delivery package.
Watching the process, which I
assume is computer animation – is a good experience, now you know how a drone
delivery might look – in your own yard.
Assuming you have a yard. There
are many “what ifs” to think about, but the future is always like that. Be it air travel, or satellite launch, there
are always skeptics who say “we don’t need it”, or “it won’t work”, or “it will
be too expensive”.
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