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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> The Cafe >> Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1385951862 Message started by Oldfeller on 12/01/13 at 18:37:42 |
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Title: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Oldfeller on 12/01/13 at 18:37:42 ..... and you thought Google Loon wireless free internet service was really "out there" ...... :D Hey, Honey, we really needed it when we were out in the woods camping ..... so we paid the $10 to have it flown in. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BIu9dpwHU[/media] http://liliputing.com/2013/12/amazon-working-on-half-hour-delivery-by-drone-service-amazon-prime-air.html ...... the future, she comes ..... |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Ragnar444 on 12/01/13 at 21:26:33 Wow! Looks like I retired from UPS just in time! :o |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by old_rider on 12/02/13 at 00:37:56 And I wonder how many flying robots will make it back? They should make them so you open the container and get your stuff, then slide the container back under it, then press a return to home button, save on cartons. |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by bobert_FSO on 12/02/13 at 05:53:00 "And I wonder how many flying robots will make it back?" +1 I see many poor little defenseless drones being grabbed and sold on a black market. We are becoming a nation of petty thieves. Also who wants a bunch of drones invading everyone's air space like a bunch of mosquitoes. |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by ToesNose on 12/02/13 at 06:18:12 Hmmm how many drones do you think it would take to make a flying chair!!!!!!!!!! ;D |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Oldfeller on 12/02/13 at 16:20:59 I think the drone drops the box and returns home. When you get your stuff and respond on line that the box is ready, the drone comes and picks it back up, or at Amazon's choice they can tell you to simply put it in the mailbox for return service. |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Oldfeller on 12/03/13 at 17:47:57 But Amazon is hardly alone in this endeavor. TacoCopter wants to deliver Mexican food by air (but probably won’t be able to for a while). Zookal wants to delivery textbooks by unmanned drone in Australia. And now it looks like UPS may be looking to use drones in addition to trucks in some situations. The plans are all pretty much just plans for now — federal regulators still need to set guidelines for drones flying to and fro before the skies start filling up with them. But it’s looking increasingly likely that in a few years drones will be doing more than spying on you. |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Serowbot on 12/03/13 at 18:59:54 First couple of crashes will have them rethinking their liability... ...if you're lucky enough to get beaned by one,... you'll be set for life... ...(fingers crossed)... ;D... |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Yonuh Adisi FSO on 12/03/13 at 19:08:59 With as congested as air traffic is already and how overworked Air Traffic Controllers are do they really think this is gonna work? |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Serowbot on 12/03/13 at 21:29:17 I imagine they'll fly below radar, and out of commercial traffic,... but... Plenty of hawks and ravens in my neighborhood... They're either gonna' see prey,.. or a threat... ...either way, them drones is toast... ;D... |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Oldfeller on 12/04/13 at 06:15:02 Birds aren't stupid as hunters and they see really really well. Them whirrling noisy blades are going to be a form of natural bird deterrent. Next, the copters can fly on 3 propellers operating, this is the service performance margin on the device. In short, it will work ..... Why will AMAZON continue to pursue this? WHY ARE UPS AND FEDEX PURSUING THIS? It costs $5 per package now to deliver by truck, driven mostly by fuel and employee wages. People will pay for convenience and for those towns with air drone hubs the local delivery cost is mainly electricity and drone maintenance. What you will see is UPS installing an air hub in each city they currently keep any kind of sorting facility. Ditto for FedEx. Within 2 years, every city will have an air drone hub. Within 2 years, you will be doing the "pick the package up in back yard" deal too. You will simply go to the spot (+/- 3 yards) that is tree free that is inside your fence, crank up the phone app for the delivery service and let your phone tell the service the exact GPS coordinates of where you want the packages to always land. Women LIKE instant gratification. Women will want this sort of service from WalMart, from the grocery store, etc. =========================== Paradim shift time ---- why even have a retail store when everybody wants instant delivery? Go shopping, see something you want, price check it at Amazon and then have it sitting in the back yard by the time you get home ..... :-? ..... the future, she comes ..... |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Blinky-FSO on 12/04/13 at 06:34:10 Near the hub, one guy, one lawn chair, one shotgun, a box of shells, and a six pack. Good hunting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by verslagen1 on 12/04/13 at 07:29:01 3B3C2A33335F0 wrote:
Buhaha... No Robot Zones 8-) |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Arnold on 12/04/13 at 07:29:52 This is not gonna work for the same reason we dont have flying cars. |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by danjray on 12/04/13 at 08:19:19 I thought the reason we don't have flying cars was due to the safety concern that if something breaks down you come crashing to earth... not that anything would break down in a flying car, just look at how well kept everyone's car on the road is!.... But I know I don't see any problem with the drones dropping off packages, I mean hell, if it cuts down on gas consumption that leaves more for the rest of us! |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Arnold on 12/04/13 at 08:34:45 I dont have a problem with it either, it's just that as soon as something may hurt someone they ban it, no matter how cool it is. |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/04/13 at 10:01:51 I dont like it,, makes even MORE Goob spying easier. By ng little flying robots a common thing, seeing one fly by with a "package" would become a "nothing" occurrence. The goobs could play the same game, same kinda flying bot, with a "package" of cameras & listening devices. I dont like it one bit., |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Serowbot on 12/04/13 at 12:07:19 I want one to follow me up Mt.Lemmon and video the ride from the air... Cooool!... :-?... |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Arnold on 12/04/13 at 12:20:26 I'm getting one of these: http://gizmodo.com/skyjack-lets-you-hunt-down-and-hack-other-drones-from-t-1476286537 |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/04/13 at 13:57:21 For a whoppin $300.00 I can buy a 4 bladed, camera equipped, radio control doohickey right down the road, What I Want is an RC plane with a camera & a very good radio that allows me to operate it from a couple of miles away, hauling an auto 410 shotgun on top of it. Id want the camera to send to me in real time, & yes, I have RC experience & can build such a plane. Its the cost of the radio & the smarts to get the video to work that I see as a problem,,Thatd be a blast!,, |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Oldfeller on 12/05/13 at 17:31:30 Naw, what you REALLY want is that really tall blonde humanoid Cylon girl to come live in your closet ..... Cross her programming with a large dose of Barbara Eden from I Dream of Genie ..... "Yes, Master How can I please you?" |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Dane Allen on 12/09/13 at 14:48:53 6A6D7B62620E0 wrote:
And a lot of free stuff ;D ;D ;D |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by Oldfeller on 12/09/13 at 15:43:25 Which set of laws do you think they would use once they caught you? The new Air Hjacking laws ..... Commercial truckjacking laws ..... Anti-Pirating laws (the old ones are better) ..... Or them really draconian old Wells Fargo ones involving the villainous use of shotguns on stage coach drivers ? :-? I dunno, getting smeared with honey and being all tied up all tight like to a big upright cactus and then left in the sun for the ants to find sounds kinda nasty to me .... Any of the above would take all the fun out of it before the first box of shells was gone I suspect. ;) |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/09/13 at 22:13:27 Coupla cannons, firing heavy slugs attached to a net,, Snag that Mo D! |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by old_rider on 12/09/13 at 23:46:13 Well, first ya gotta be a good redneck.... bonfire and beer and a few friends. Then you gotta make sure a couple of those friends are geeks that can scramble a frequency compatible with a RC flying quadro. Then ya get them to use the Quazimodo... or what ever program (cause yer in the main flight path). Get the program to tell the quad its in texas (you are in tenn.), when it starts to change course the geek hallers "PULL", and whomever hits it with the shotgun gets the prize! Then of course you throw the contraption into the fire and throw on more wood (NOW THATS A FIRE!). ;D |
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Title: Re: Amazon Prime Air, robots fly it to your door Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/10/13 at 12:42:18 It would go from Bon fire to Bon Voyage fire.. a good fire fer sher,, |
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