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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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[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I get that this is probably more a learning experience than anything…butttt

The way the world is going and the conditions this thing needs to operate? Idk man

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This service was announced more than a decade ago. If they're still having learning experiences, I think they may be trying too hard to get this to work.

[–] alienangel@sffa.community 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, why wouldn't they just give up after a couple of years, silly people.