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Reason
United Kingdom2770 Posts
<3 I can't wait. | ||
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Lockitupv2
United States496 Posts
The free market uses drones to deliver products to you quicker. | ||
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Orcasgt24
Canada3238 Posts
On December 07 2013 17:21 Lockitupv2 wrote: Government uses drones to kill and spy on people. The free market uses drones to deliver products to you quicker. Hopefully amazon doesn't use this system in Iraq then | ||
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CuddlyCuteKitten
Sweden2912 Posts
On December 06 2013 13:18 Djzapz wrote: No, that's not the point. They have no intention of monopolizing the shipping market, not even in the long term because so far, even they know that there's no way going for that could be viable in the foreseeable future. It's just an extra service at bet. They know that without years of R&D and huge investments, this isn't going to be cheap and it won't be possible to expand it to the entire population. It has other limitations too, like weather, weight and sized of the package, etc. That said, it would be awesome if warehouses became fully automated. The automated forklift goes and picks up item off the shelf, puts it on a drone, which leaves, drops off package and comes back... I can picture warehouses with tens of drones flying in and out at any given moment. The only staff would be engineers dealing with the drones. Not going to happen but it would be cool. My gf worked at a major brewery and they had drone trucks fetching everything. 1 guy on shift monitoring the trucks instead of 22 truck drivers as before. She was really scared of going into the warehouse but of course it was completely harmless, the trucks stopped as soon as something was in their paths.  | ||
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sluggaslamoo
Australia4494 Posts
On December 23 2013 18:45 CuddlyCuteKitten wrote: My gf worked at a major brewery and they had drone trucks fetching everything. 1 guy on shift monitoring the trucks instead of 22 truck drivers as before. She was really scared of going into the warehouse but of course it was completely harmless, the trucks stopped as soon as something was in their paths. Technology has improved so much that most transport vehicles are on autopilot and the drivers are simply there because people watch too many movies. Bullet trains are completely autopiloted afaik, and pilots for large passenger aircraft barely touch any of the instruments except for takeoff and landing, and even then a lot of it is computerised. | ||
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iFU.pauline
France1781 Posts
"wow today i got a psp" | ||
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ClanRH.TV
United States462 Posts
On December 02 2013 13:01 Musicus wrote: Wait what? Do they just leave your stuff in front of the door if you aren't at home in the US? All the time in many places depending on the neighborhood you live it. It's not likely for packages to be stolen when they're on most doorsteps. | ||
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DwD
Sweden8621 Posts
On December 23 2013 21:01 ClanRH.TV wrote: All the time in many places depending on the neighborhood you live it. It's not likely for packages to be stolen when they're on most doorsteps. I must have seen some 999 youtube vids of people having a camera outside their door and ppl just pulling up, taking the packages and leaving. Crazy in my opinion to just leave it at the door.. | ||
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shadymmj
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
- Ok GPS tracks your home. But how does it know where your door is ? - If a dog/children is in the way. How to provent the helix to chop them when they approach ? | ||
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quebecman77
Canada133 Posts
That's really cool but think about how many people will lose job if something like that go mainstream ( and better ) Right now in most field, robot can do better that man and most job change at a terrible pace for remove real people worker everywhere.... I'm not finding that ''cool'' . | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
On December 23 2013 23:01 quebecman77 wrote: What people will do for work in about 30 years ?? We will get even more people not working and robot doing all the work for a few rich people ?? That's really cool but think about how many people will lose job if something like that go mainstream ( and better ) Right now in most field, robot can do better that man and most job change at a terrible pace for remove real people worker everywhere.... I'm not finding that ''cool'' . Well... You need people to build and watch the drones + maintenance. | ||
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
On December 23 2013 23:01 quebecman77 wrote: What people will do for work in about 30 years ?? We will get even more people not working and robot doing all the work for a few rich people ?? That's really cool but think about how many people will lose job if something like that go mainstream ( and better ) Right now in most field, robot can do better that man and most job change at a terrible pace for remove real people worker everywhere.... I'm not finding that ''cool'' . Washing machines, printers , digital downloads , cds, tapes , radio,TV, movies have all replaced old jobs people do. During the agricultural revolution farmers lost their jobs and people were going crazy protesting. During the Insdustrial Revolution people working in things ranging from clothes to wood lost their jobs... We're still here. People adapt. | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On December 23 2013 20:33 iFU.pauline wrote: I can imagine kids destroying drones on sight for fun "wow today i got a psp" Well, I can imagine those drones having cameras attached. If not for that reason, then because NSA wants eyes everywhere anyway.  | ||
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Moonsalt
267 Posts
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
As a premium feature for a couple of people it's ok, and I guess this is also Amazon's idea. In fact, once the range limit is gone, this would be ideal to transport stuff to places that are hard to reach, e.g.: huts on the mountain, islands without airport etc... But if you want to scale this up to millions of people you gonna run into problems. Also, the system would have to be 100% save until the FFA is gonna allow a single one of those. I believe that a better solution would be to connect houses with a centralized underground transportation system. Just like every house is nowadys connected to canalization, every house could be connected to an automated underground delivery system. | ||
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Iceman331
United States1306 Posts
On December 23 2013 22:54 FFW_Rude wrote: Things that are problematic for now. - Ok GPS tracks your home. But how does it know where your door is ? - If a dog/children is in the way. How to provent the helix to chop them when they approach ? Both easily solved with cameras and a bit of code. The issue with this is NOT the technology. The technology exists and it could be implemented today and function just fine. The issue is with regulations and getting insurance companies to agree etc. | ||
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
On December 24 2013 04:55 Iceman331 wrote: Both easily solved with cameras and a bit of code. The issue with this is NOT the technology. The technology exists and it could be implemented today and function just fine. The issue is with regulations and getting insurance companies to agree etc. Well if you have a camera, you need someone to pilot the drone no ? So not really automatic. How can the drone prevent a child or dog for running into it ? Also there is nothing "easy" in programming such programs (i mean like it's huge things that needs so much testing etc...) I do agree with you though (though i don't have to, because it's a fact) about regulation. | ||
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Setev
Malaysia390 Posts
Then Amazon can just give you a download link after you made payment, and you can download the schematics to your smartphone and then print it out with your 3D Printer. No drones/airspace laws to worry about. | ||
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Talin
Montenegro10532 Posts
On December 24 2013 20:05 FFW_Rude wrote: Well if you have a camera, you need someone to pilot the drone no ? So not really automatic. How can the drone prevent a child or dog for running into it ? You don't need a human pilot, no. A computer with half-decent image recognition software can handle those challenges. | ||
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