Monday, December 2, 2013
Since it's cyber monday...
...here's an interesting clip from last night's 60 minutes interview with Jeff Bezos that I found quite interesting. Although I personally find him evil and heartless, this was so off the wall I had to share it. Apparently, Amazon is experimenting with drones that will airlift packages right to your door. It seems overkill, but if it works then you know what the next step will be - that's right, just beam them directly in to your living room like Star Trek. You know it will happen.
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I was literally just talking to my little brother about how faster shipping methods are sure to come, and sure enough, they are coming! This is very interesting. Although our packages will arrive quickly, a lot of different issues will arise as far as the drone being able to arrive at the correct destination. Even, people stealing packages out of the sky (because we do experience people stealing packages off other people's door step). I also imagine this mode of transportation will be expensive until it becomes common enough.
ReplyDeleteThis is insane...so one day we open our door only to look out to thousands of these drones delivering packages in our city?? This isn't going to fly. No pun intended. These drones will be interfering in air traffic patterns of our airplanes and more. I don't agree with this no matter how much faster the package arrives...lest we forget the jobs that will be eliminated in the transportation/delivery industry.
ReplyDeleteI watched this clip last night on the news. I do not like the idea at all. I know this world is always trying to come up with new and fast technological methods but I just don't believe this should be one. I personally don't like the idea of items flying in the air, its just kind of creepy. It will just make us more dependable on these drones. And also like Cindy stated that it would eliminate jobs. People are already hurting for jobs and to create these drones it will replace a lot of peoples jobs which will leave a lot of people upset.
ReplyDeleteThis just seems ridiculous to me. One airplane can fly hundreds of packages all over the world. Then, one delivery van can also have lots and lots of packages to delivery daily. But only one drone can deliver only one package at a time that weighs less than 5lbs. They’d need millions and millions of these things. The only plus is these drones are supposed to deliver the packages within a half hour of customers placing the orders. That’d be cool, but sounds impossible to do especially with all the orders placed on Amazon daily. What would Cyber Monday skies look like? There are way too many variables they’d have to work out. How would they deliver to apartments/condos? What about theft? Etc. Etc. Etc. The FAA would still have to approve this, which seems unlikely. Could this just be a marketing stunt by Amazon? It was Cyber Monday after all :)
ReplyDeleteIt is crazy to see where the technology goes, but it is good to see a small glimpse of it so we can start to prepare for it. Years ago, nobody would have dreamed of a drone used to carry out military operations of any way and now that is a reality and is used more and more. With Google's self-driven car and other advancements in technology, it is only a matter of time before this service is carried out.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe this kind of service will get off the ground (pun intended) at a commercially viable level. Just imagine the cost to the consumer, they need someone to pay for those little yellow delivery boxes and I'm sure they're more expensive than a cardboard box. I can't ever imagine these things flying around with 50" flat-screens attached to them.
ReplyDeleteI think it's very innovative. I have had packages stolen after delivery and missed deliveries. I am thinking that maybe with the drones the delivery time will be slashed making it faster and more effective. The drones will have more precision and eliminate a lot of wrong deliveries because I would assume that the drones would be programmed and delivery status updated while en route. I can not dislike the man because if he doesn't do it someone else will.
ReplyDeleteIt's too expensive.
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