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Amazon planning delivery drones
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4369685.html
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/02/tech/i...ons/index.html http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir...rones-21067216 You've probably heard about this by now, but Amazon is working on the usage of drones to deliver packages more efficiently than via traditional ground travel in trucks. After reading those articles with details, what do you folks think? I think it's possible, but there are a lot of potential problems.
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When a truck breaks down in the middle of nowhere, nobody cares because the driver can just get out and call AAA or whichever organization specializes in dealing with trucks.
When a drone breaks down in the middle of nowhere, have fun tracking it down and seeing if you can possibly recover its cargo. |
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(You know, a mobile data connection can help a lot in getting the location of something. Coarse location data from triangulation and all that. Mobile data is pretty important for Assisted GPS since it pretty much means the GPS unit only has to try for satellites that are really there. You can get a GPS fix from "instantly" to 10 seconds, instead of 30-60 seconds. Also works better indoors.) Last edited by Twiggy; December 5, 2013 at 07:50:22 AM. |
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Going off the rails would probably raise a lot of warning flags in the first place, but in that case, it's just a matter of whether you're able to reach it in the first place. Remember that it's near impossible to lose GPS tracking outdoors.
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This sounds too expensive for them to be risking on such excursions. If this works well then I suppose they'll move forward unto more areas. I know one day I plan to live in a nothing area of Arizona, but I have to say that having a drone fly something to my house would be a fun sight.
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