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Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. (news.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy.

You need to be home to put out the landing target and to make sure that a porch pirate doesn’t make off with your item or that it doesn’t roll into the street (which happened once to Lord and Silverman). But your car can’t be in the driveway. Letting the drone land in the backyard would avoid some of these problems, but not if there are trees.

Amazon has also warned customers that drone delivery is unavailable during periods of high demand for drone delivery.

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they did this for the press. it was never a serious experiment.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure they didn't spend all this money to make stupidly unnecessary and difficult drone deliveries in a small town in Texas for the press since, again, that makes them look terrible.

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet here we are talking about them. Whether or not its thru positive means, its online presence grew with this.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Who is going to be more likely to order from Amazon after reading that their drone delivery service is shit?