How does drone delivery make any financial sense at all? It seems riskier nad less likely to work, given that people's homes (not to mention apartments) may not have any reasonable or safe delivery spots.
Delivery is so much faster when you can fly point to point and don't have to contend with any traffic or traffic control (stop light, stop signs, etc.).
It's more of a surprise that delivering a hamburger in a ton of metal and plastic with a human driver makes financial sense.
I would imagine that this makes sense for a large subset of deliveries, if 30-50% of deliveries can be done with drones, not only will it still be worth it, but I imagine those customers will likely buy more from the store, especially if they can make it same-day delivery
I'm not so sure drone-to-drone anti-collision detection is a solved science. Maybe it is as simple has 802.11p or v2x announcements to determine hight and traveling plane.
I like proposed drone in the delivery truck ceiling idea. Adding even 20 deliveries a route would pay dividends pretty quickly. I'm concerned about the risk that I might end up with a Walmart/Amazon flight corridor over my house. Last-half-mile deliveries from vans would have a much lower impact.
i for one dont want some noisy ass mosquito camera recording pos flying around me that frequently. noise and light pollution are frustrating; though i can see where populated areas are already trained where that pollution is normal, adding a bit more is tolerable (edit: not that i want to be subject to that)
i would also be okay with the peoples jobs being replaced by the robots offered early retirement, paid fully by these big corps.. but of course that means the big corps would charge the rest of us more money over the longrun so that cost would not hurt their bottom line
I still want to know why we aren't heavily taxing junk mail instead of subsidizing. Or adding a national opt-out system. I do see the incentive problem for political junk mail, asking incumbents to vote against subsidizing that would be hard.
Junk mail is not subsidized per se. It does often cost less than non-marketing mail, but this is because it can take advantage of some discounts that lower volume senders have a harder time qualifying for.
In particular, you can get discounts for pre-sorting and bundling your mailings, formatting things in a way that is easier for USPS to automate, and for high volume.
How does drone delivery make any financial sense at all? It seems riskier nad less likely to work, given that people's homes (not to mention apartments) may not have any reasonable or safe delivery spots.
Delivery is so much faster when you can fly point to point and don't have to contend with any traffic or traffic control (stop light, stop signs, etc.).
It's more of a surprise that delivering a hamburger in a ton of metal and plastic with a human driver makes financial sense.
I would imagine that this makes sense for a large subset of deliveries, if 30-50% of deliveries can be done with drones, not only will it still be worth it, but I imagine those customers will likely buy more from the store, especially if they can make it same-day delivery
I'm not so sure drone-to-drone anti-collision detection is a solved science. Maybe it is as simple has 802.11p or v2x announcements to determine hight and traveling plane.
I like proposed drone in the delivery truck ceiling idea. Adding even 20 deliveries a route would pay dividends pretty quickly. I'm concerned about the risk that I might end up with a Walmart/Amazon flight corridor over my house. Last-half-mile deliveries from vans would have a much lower impact.
Ukraine cargo container style. Do 40 deliveries at once in an area.
It may not make financial sense right now but these companies are willing to subsidize it on the expectation that it will one day make sense.
Someone needs to do the R&D work first and then roll out real world implementations to iron out the bugs.
Why hasn't this taken 90% of the postal and delivery market?
Why aren't USPS/Amazon selling all their trucks and replacing them with drones?
i for one dont want some noisy ass mosquito camera recording pos flying around me that frequently. noise and light pollution are frustrating; though i can see where populated areas are already trained where that pollution is normal, adding a bit more is tolerable (edit: not that i want to be subject to that)
i would also be okay with the peoples jobs being replaced by the robots offered early retirement, paid fully by these big corps.. but of course that means the big corps would charge the rest of us more money over the longrun so that cost would not hurt their bottom line
Delivery trucks are louder than drones.
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I still want to know why we aren't heavily taxing junk mail instead of subsidizing. Or adding a national opt-out system. I do see the incentive problem for political junk mail, asking incumbents to vote against subsidizing that would be hard.
Junk mail is not subsidized per se. It does often cost less than non-marketing mail, but this is because it can take advantage of some discounts that lower volume senders have a harder time qualifying for.
In particular, you can get discounts for pre-sorting and bundling your mailings, formatting things in a way that is easier for USPS to automate, and for high volume.
These are all in the southern US. Is that because of weather or other factors?