Amazon delivered its first customer package by drone
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It's a nice service, but not something that can work everywhere.
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I feel bad for birds and insects like bees, and tree animals like squirrels being scared or injured by drones.
Birds like owls help control the mice population by catching and eating mice, so drones scaring off birds like owls is not good. Insects like bees make honey, and pollinate the flowers, and fruit trees. Pollination is needed for flowers and food to grow. Loud drones scaring away the bees can mess up farmer's vegetable, fruit, and flower business, so there will be higher unemployment, and more hunger.
Birds like owls help control the mice population by catching and eating mice, so drones scaring off birds like owls is not good. Insects like bees make honey, and pollinate the flowers, and fruit trees. Pollination is needed for flowers and food to grow. Loud drones scaring away the bees can mess up farmer's vegetable, fruit, and flower business, so there will be higher unemployment, and more hunger.
I don't think that the drone would have that type of effect on animals. Since it's just coming and going it only startles them. I also think that it wouldn't have any effect on bees. Insects do not respond too much to sound.
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some insects might get chopped up by the blades, but thats about it.
As soon as people start damaging the drones, Amazon will probably add video cameras to them.
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Recording people damaging drones may not help because people may wear a mask and sun glasses to hide their identity. Some people may hide in a bush, car or house with curtains on the windows to shoot drones.
Then I guess they could add a GPS to the drone and have it somehow alert the authorities of its location, so that they can investigate where it was damaged. That, in combination with a camera, could locate at least the houses it was hovering above when it got damaged.
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pretty sure its easy to disable GPS and still steal the whole thing.
Now Amazon wants to build an airship 45,000 feet above the Earth, storing a fleet of drones and packages to deliver. Amazon said these unmanned aerial vehicles would take "little to no power" to transport goods to consumers' doorsteps if they are dropping down and gliding instead of lifting off and taking flight.
Amazon drones, meet your mothership
Amazon drones, meet your mothership
It's an interesting concept, though it feels a lot more awkward/less convenient than just delivering the packages normally. I mean, I'm just imagining a drone crashing into a tree in some places around here, especially if they're always meant to deliver to the doorstep rather than anywhere else near the building. I also get the impression a fair few dogs won't like these things very much, and you're more likely to see the drone mauled by a large dog than a delivery person.
The idea of a piloted airship for drone dispatches is certainly interesting though. Makes me imagine them just sticking a parachute on the package and kicking it out the door.
The idea of a piloted airship for drone dispatches is certainly interesting though. Makes me imagine them just sticking a parachute on the package and kicking it out the door.