Amazon unveils 30-minute delivery by drone, hopes to launch in 2015
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[QUOTE=Chinook249;43043428]Just by reading the title I thought they were like UAV type drones (well obviously it's unmanned, here's a pic of what I thought)
[IMG]http://20committee.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/uav-hellfire-missile.jpg[/IMG]
One of those. So it'd carry a [B]lot [/B]of customers' stuff but whatever you had shipped would be dropped from an altitude and at speed, so it would slide into your driveway at 120 mph or whatever the stall speed is for one of those
Don't order a laptop
or eggs[/QUOTE]
Or a large, glass tank full of cobras or other dangerous reptiles.
[QUOTE=Chinook249;43043428]Just by reading the title I thought they were like UAV type drones (well obviously it's unmanned, here's a pic of what I thought)
[IMG]http://20committee.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/uav-hellfire-missile.jpg[/IMG]
One of those. So it'd carry a [B]lot [/B]of customers' stuff but whatever you had shipped would be dropped from an altitude and at speed, so it would slide into your driveway at 120 mph or whatever the stall speed is for one of those
Don't order a laptop
or eggs[/QUOTE]
Or an explosive.
[QUOTE=V12US;43043738]Or an explosive.[/QUOTE]
My order shipped to Afghanistan, fuck.
[QUOTE=V12US;43043738]Or an explosive.[/QUOTE]
Or especially not this
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant-Gallon/dp/B005MR3IVO[/url]
[QUOTE=Swebonny;43041290]It is really cool. But how effective is it? I can't imagine the batteries lasting very long before the need to recharge. And the fact that it only carries one package.[/QUOTE]
Imagine ordering ~20 packages and having a fleet of drones at your door step ^^.
Theres also the noise problem, those rotor blades make a racket.
Owning quadcopters I cant see this going ahead. Too many unavoidable issues.
They should just build a giant cannon that shoots packages to your door.
[QUOTE=Skyward;43044700]They should just build a giant cannon that shoots packages to your door.[/QUOTE]
I'd much prefer Inter Continental Ballistic Packages
[QUOTE=Novangel;43044765]I'd much prefer Inter Continental Ballistic Packages[/QUOTE]
[img]http://iliketowastemytime.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_image/south_dakota_minuteman_silo_blast_door_0.jpg[/img]
i cant wait till my new augmented arms come shipped on this
[editline]2nd December 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Chinook249;43043428]Just by reading the title I thought they were like UAV type drones (well obviously it's unmanned, here's a pic of what I thought)
[IMG]http://20committee.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/uav-hellfire-missile.jpg[/IMG]
One of those. So it'd carry a [B]lot [/B]of customers' stuff but whatever you had shipped would be dropped from an altitude and at speed, so it would slide into your driveway at 120 mph or whatever the stall speed is for one of those
Don't order a laptop
or eggs[/QUOTE]
"ah, here comes my package"
next thing you know, you're holding one of legs hopping out the house on fire screaming "Damn you Amazon!"
[QUOTE=Novangel;43044765]I'd much prefer Inter Continental Ballistic Packages[/QUOTE]
Curiously, you aren't far from the (past) truth.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Missilemail.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Wikipedia]In 1959 the U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero assisted the Post Office Department, predecessor to the United States Postal Service (USPS), in its search for faster mail transportation, with the only delivery of "Missile Mail". On 8 June 1959, Barbero fired a Regulus cruise missile — its nuclear warhead having earlier been replaced by two Post Office Department mail containers — targeted at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Naval Station Mayport. The Regulus cruise missile was launched with a pair of Aerojet-General 3KS-33,000 [3 sec duration, 33,000 lbf (150 kN) thrust] solid-propellant boosters. A turbojet engine sustained the long-range cruise flight after the boosters were dropped. Twenty-two minutes after launch, the missile struck its target.
USS Barbero first day commemorative cover. The return address is the Postmaster General.
The USPS had officially established a branch post office on Barbero and delivered some 3000 pieces of mail to it before Barbero left Norfolk, Virginia. The mail consisted entirely of commemorative postal covers addressed to President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower, other government officials, the Postmasters General of all members of the Universal Postal Union, and so on, from United States Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield. Their postage (four cents domestic, eight cents international) had been cancelled "USS Barbero Jun 8 9.30am 1959" before the submarine put to sea. At Mayport, the Regulus missile was opened and the mail forwarded to the post office in Jacksonville, Florida, for sorting and routing.
Upon witnessing the missile's landing, Summerfield stated, "This peacetime employment of a guided missile for the important and practical purpose of carrying mail, is the first known official use of missiles by any Post Office Department of any nation." Summerfield proclaimed the event to be "of historic significance to the peoples of the entire world", and predicted that "before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail."[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.therowleyestates.com/wp-content/uploads/Clay_Pigeon_Shooting.jpg[/img]
Am I the only one thinking this
[img]http://www.sickchirpse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/flying-dildo.jpg[/img]
Mom your order from Amazon is here
[QUOTE=Brandy92;43044312]Theres also the noise problem, those rotor blades make a racket.[/QUOTE]
And mail trucks/motorbikes don't?
I hope they put some cages on the rotors. Otherwise there's going to be a humdinger of a legal case when some idiot runs into them.
The future is here. I'm pretty excited to see the next 20 years happen. If ideas like this are scheduled for only two years from now, 10 years from now is going to feel like a whole new world.
Can it be used to delivery mini hellfire missiles in Tribal Pakistan?
but what if they order 30minute shipping in an another country? does it have jet boosters?
[QUOTE=Lurklet;43041339]what if someone steals takes the drone and the package?[/QUOTE]
I'm certain that the drones are equipped with GPS trackers of some sort so Amazon can see exactly where they are. So good luck stealing one without them knowing.
So if these mail-drones become a common sight in the US, it should be pretty easy for the NSA/CIA/FBI/DEA to disguise their surveillance drones (or even drones with killing power?!) as mail-drones.
Which would make them blend in with the real ones.
Or if the mail-drones are already outfitted with surveillance technologies (for security reasons or Amazon was forced to cooperate with the intelligence agencies) they could just use the feeds from the real ones to spy on people.
Foreign Intelligence Agencies could do the same obviously either by making their own false-mail-drones or by hacking into real mail-drones.
Hence paranoid people might start shooting any and all mail-drones in their vicinity out of the sky thinking they might be surveillance drones or worse coming to get them/catch them in the act of something.
[QUOTE=Killowatt;43043329][img]http://i.imgur.com/SpgbJ9P.png[/img][/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://oi49.tinypic.com/2lv0gwh.jpg[/IMG]
Amazon now offering livestock delivery
[QUOTE=smurfy;43041256]I wonder how much they'll charge on launch
(this post originally said some shit about porches but I deleted it but then someone quoted it so that's what happened there)[/QUOTE]
Free drone shipping with Prime
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43042202]Once they figure out how to do it, it should be cheaper than normal delivery.[/QUOTE]
in pure cost, yes, but depending on availability of drones, they'd [i]have[/i] to cost an arm and a leg simply because of the demand, you don't want to guarantee 30 minutes and have every halfwit buying a few little things only to take up all of the drones at a time, whilst a bunch of other people could have more legitimate reason for 30 minute deliveries. It's a luxury fee.
I'd also expect making it super cheap would spoil people and loud idiots on the internet would complain that they have to pay more for slow ground delivery, even if their packages are coming from long distance depots or are just too huge for the service anyways
[QUOTE=Chinook249;43043428]Just by reading the title I thought they were like UAV type drones (well obviously it's unmanned, here's a pic of what I thought)
[IMG]http://20committee.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/uav-hellfire-missile.jpg[/IMG]
One of those. So it'd carry a [B]lot [/B]of customers' stuff but whatever you had shipped would be dropped from an altitude and at speed, so it would slide into your driveway at 120 mph or whatever the stall speed is for one of those
Don't order a laptop
or eggs[/QUOTE]
I still hate that a shitton of people don't know the difference between UAVs and quad copters and everything's just called a drone
[QUOTE=Gordon Frohm;43046113]So if these mail-drones become a common sight in the US, it should be pretty easy for the NSA/CIA/FBI/DEA to disguise their surveillance drones (or even drones with killing power?!) as mail-drones.
Which would make them blend in with the real ones.
Or if the mail-drones are already outfitted with surveillance technologies (for security reasons or Amazon was forced to cooperate with the intelligence agencies) they could just use the feeds from the real ones to spy on people.
Foreign Intelligence Agencies could do the same obviously either by making their own false-mail-drones or by hacking into real mail-drones.
Hence paranoid people might start shooting any and all mail-drones in their vicinity out of the sky thinking they might be surveillance drones or worse coming to get them/catch them in the act of something.[/QUOTE]
I'm happily awaiting the first news of some dipwag getting arrested for shooting one down, claimng his actions as defending his freedom.
Seems more publicity than anything. Look how small the box is in that video. What are you getting ordered that that's small that you need in 30 minutes. It'll be niche for a while I admit but I really am excited for when this is more capable.
Seems great but I kind of enjoy looking forward to something arriving in the mail as bleak and depressing as that sounds. It would really great though to order some clothes and have it arrive for the event later that day
[QUOTE=Dr McNinja;43046904]Seems more publicity than anything. Look how small the box is in that video. What are you getting ordered that that's small that you need in 30 minutes. It'll be niche for a while I admit but I really am excited for when this is more capable.[/QUOTE]
Last minute anniversary gifts.
I can see it now...
Item cost: $12.00
Express shipping: $20.00 est. arrival 4-7 days
Prime Air shipping: $160.00 ~2 hours
Imagine your PSU dies and you order a New one Via this Prime Air Delivery System 30 Minutes Later and BAM! new PSU.
[QUOTE=DiavelZzZ;43047407]Imagine your PSU dies and you order a New one Via this Prime Air Delivery System 30 Minutes Later and BAM! new PSU.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but what will the maximum weight be for one of these things?
[QUOTE=DiavelZzZ;43047407]Imagine your PSU dies and you order a New one Via this Prime Air Delivery System 30 Minutes Later and BAM! new PSU.[/QUOTE]
but how would you order a new one if your computer is dead?
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