Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/03 23:17:02
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For those following drone hobby development, the Sky Drone is available for pre-purchase now. 3G/4G/LTE with unlimited radio range and Oculus Rift use. Sounds like an awesome core for a hobby drone build. http://www.skydrone.aero/index.php
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/04 14:49:16
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Unfortunately, this will simply make people more used to things flying in close to their back yard. Bring on the more cameras looking in the window of your house to see what your doing. *see image of newspaper headline....man goes to jail for using drone to peep in windows of sorority.*
Good to know what little silence you might have in your yard will now be broken further by a drone flying by cause someone cant wait till tomorrow to get their hair gel from amazon.
Thank god I live far enough out that it will take many years for any cities to get close enough to disrupt my quiet time outside.
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/04 17:04:41
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Never going to happen. There are much more things that could go wrong with that than with a standard delivery. Birds could fly into it and make it crash, strong winds could bring it down, people will inevitably shoot it down, people will try to hack them and catch them, people will try to steal the packages in order to make a profit on them, the drone could break during flight, the drop mechanism could malfunction and drop your package during flight or not drop it at it's destination, the GPS could give the drone wrong coordinates...
People like to think that we are living in the age of robotics. We are not. The age of robotics will be only when robots will function like humans and think like humans. We don't even have an efficient power source to power them. The Curiosity rover on Mars is probably one of the most complicated machines we've ever built and it's still a very fragile, very expensive piece of equipment that is dependent on humans telling it what to do and despite it's power source, it still has a very short lifespan.
 
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/05 13:54:13
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Never going to happen. There are much more things that could go wrong with that than with a standard delivery. Birds could fly into it and make it crash, strong winds could bring it down, people will inevitably shoot it down, people will try to hack them and catch them, people will try to steal the packages in order to make a profit on them, the drone could break during flight, the drop mechanism could malfunction and drop your package during flight or not drop it at it's destination, the GPS could give the drone wrong coordinates...
People like to think that we are living in the age of robotics. We are not. The age of robotics will be only when robots will function like humans and think like humans. We don't even have an efficient power source to power them. The Curiosity rover on Mars is probably one of the most complicated machines we've ever built and it's still a very fragile, very expensive piece of equipment that is dependent on humans telling it what to do and despite it's power source, it still has a very short lifespan.
Never going to happen. There are much more things that could go wrong Pedestrians could run in front of it and make it crash, strong winds could blow it over, people will inevitably hijack them, people will try to steal the packages in order to make a profit on them, the vehicle could break during delivery, the delivery driver could malfunction and drop your package during delivery or not drop it at it's destination, the GPS could give the delivery driver wrong coordinates... No, delivery vans will never catch on! Len
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/05 13:56:26
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The reason this will never work is because the first time one of these things hits a child there will be lawsuit galore.
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/06 07:57:06
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I'd love to shoot it down with mah Stinger: Aims and get's a lock on: Peep Peep Peeeeeep! Heads away!: Pssssssiiiiiieeeeeeuuuuuwwwwwww   Hits the target: KABOOOMEEEZ!!  Yes! The remaining parts fall from the sky and onto the ground: Kling kling kling kling..rinkle rinkle, scatter scatter. okays, I noes too much CoD MW1 & 2 haha xDDDDD  
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/06 20:40:25
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/06 21:36:30
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The reason this will never work is because the first time one of these things hits a child there will be lawsuit galore.
You could be right. That's just one of many scenarios. Amazon's idea may never get off the ground. Their drone may never fly in the eyes of the courts.
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/11 19:24:46
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/11 20:06:05
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I could def see them changing the laws to allow this and never implementing it saying "its too costly and in R&D too many problems cropped up that are unfixable for us at this point. Maybe in the near future when technology catches up to us." yada, yada, yada..That would at least pave the way for military drones to be legally in the air over the u.s. for there great terrorist hunt show.
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/12 11:31:51
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What I find so retarded about all of this is there are already privacy laws on the books that cover cameras. These are just flying cameras. No need for new laws when the existing ones cover it.
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Re: Drone delivery.
2013/12/12 11:58:59
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