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Should Amazon deliver orders with drones?

Amazon.com has moved one small step closer to getting approval for its drone delivery service. A good idea?

 

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  • nlarson
    nlarson over 11 years ago +4
    Members , care to weigh in? What do you think?
  • hawkeyethehacker
    hawkeyethehacker over 11 years ago +3
    Because Häagen-Dazs is awesome.
  • bluescreen
    bluescreen over 11 years ago in reply to hawkeyethehacker +3
    I didn't really think that through when I wrote it: can you really order ice cream from Amazon? That drone would have to move pretty quickly here in LA to get it to my door before the ice cream turned…
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    e14 Contributor over 11 years ago

    When the telephone was invented, people seriously asked "what, you're going to run **wires** all over the place just so people can talk to each other?"

     

    Sure, the tech has a long way to go before it makes true sense, and who knows, perhaps Amazon will settle on something closer to the ground...but if we discounted every idea simply because we don't have the tech *now*, imagine how much more primitive the world would be today?

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    crjeder over 11 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    It may make sense for some special cases now like the DHL example:http://www.dhl.de/paketkopter

    (German, sorry) emergency delivery of medicine to an island not to far off the coast. But for general delivery there are to many problems - for now.

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    e14 Contributor over 11 years ago in reply to crjeder

    Good case for usage and high priority ("fast track") through governments for implementation.  No need to apologize for language/culture/etc.  My British friends are still waiting for me to learn how to speak proper English!  (-:

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    e14 Contributor over 11 years ago in reply to crjeder

    Good case for usage and high priority ("fast track") through governments for implementation.  No need to apologize for language/culture/etc.  My British friends are still waiting for me to learn how to speak proper English!  (-:

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