The Future of Delivery (1 Viewer)

[jazzeum]

Last night on 60 Minutes, Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, was interviewed. One thing he talked about and showed was delivery by Delivery Drones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BIu9dpwHU&sns=em


Fascinating although they have several hurdles to conquer before it could become operational.

 

[PanzerAce1944]

I can already see people getting hurt by these drones going out of control. Injury lawsuit attorneys get ready for some business {sm2}

 

[jazzeum]

I think it has a long way to go before it's feasible although Bezos said the technology is there to do it. It's a fascinating possibility.

 

[lancer]

I can see this particular form of delivery causing ALL sorts of problems. In a security-conscious society like ours, who needs a bomb delivery system like this?:rolleyes2: -- Al

 

[Panzer ace]

I can see this particular form of delivery causing ALL sorts of problems. In a security-conscious society like ours, who needs a bomb delivery system like this?:rolleyes2: -- Al

Al:

It does seem to be full of problems, I am sure it will happen someday but not as soon as we all think.

 

[Mitch]

yeah right!! The man in the van now can't get it right so, this is just what we need. AFV's incoming and dropped from a hundred feet!!!
Mitch

 

[wayne556517]

Yeah great idea lets "unemploy" more people......................^&confuse^&confuse

 

[Mirof]

Just try deliveries in New York, Chicago, Brussels, Paris, Hong Kong ... name it ... near airport, military plants, nuclear plants, factories ..
But some sport, will replace clay shooting .:smile2:

 

[marco55]

It's not like that Amazon has a warehose in every town and city in the US. These things will be all over the place.Looks like at this stage they can only carry one small package.
Mark

 

[jazzeum]

I've read a couple of articles about it was intended to be an attention getter, which it did. It is years away but someday might become reality. It's also evidence of unconventional thinking.

Here's an article about it from today's New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/t...rs-some-pie-in-the-sky.html?ref=business&_r=0

 

[GICOP]

The BBC had a programme about Amazon last week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598

Cheers

Martyn

 

[BLReed]

The BBC had a programme about Amazon last week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598

Thanks. Interesting article. I wonder how much stress and mental anguish the workers
would have if they didn't have a job.

"Amazon said it had invested £1bn in the UK and created 5,000 permanent jobs."

 

[Warrior]

Thanks. Interesting article. I wonder how much stress and mental anguish the workers
would have if they didn't have a job.

"Amazon said it had invested £1bn in the UK and created 5,000 permanent jobs."

Just make sure when they start using those drones to deliver your purchases you don't grab your shotgun and blast it out of the sky, wouldn't want your stuff arriving so full of holes they'd whistle like a peanut wagon.

 

[jazzeum]

Just make sure when they start using those drones to deliver your purchases you don't grab your shotgun and blast it out of the sky, wouldn't want your stuff arriving so full of holes they'd whistle like a peanut wagon.

There you go, droning on again :wink2:

 

[TomNT]

I recently watched a doco about these things being used by an animal liberation activists to spy on a chicken farmer to see if his hens were free range as shown on the egg packaging. Moving aside whether you think by using these machines is wrong or right in this matter or by amazon, I can see major issues in the future when the use of them becomes wide spread and the cost of the machines becomes affordable for the average person. There will not only be privacy issues, but a potential for dangerous incidents such as collisions with power lines, failure of the machines and they come crashing down on someone or on someone's property, collisions with other similar machines or aircraft or the most disturbing, being used by twits to try and abort a landing by commercial aircraft!

Tom

 

[marco55]

Sure has I'm sitting here someone will try to steal their cargo so the next step would be to arm them.I can see it now when somebody comes out to get their package and this thing blows them to bits.{eek3}^&grin
Mark

 

[BLReed]

Oh no, Chicken Little, the sky is falling. Ha, ha

Amazon does a publicity stunt for Cyber-Monday and all the Amazon-haters and Doom & Gloomers
come out of the woodwork with bombs, privacy issues and taking jobs from workers. All the time Amazon wasn't first. It seems
as thought an Australian company tested UAV to deliver school books in Australia, and Domino's tested
UAV's to deliver a couple of Pizzas in the UK.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336324/Dominos-builds-DRONE-deliver-pizzas-air-beat-traffic.html

 

[TomNT]

Oh no, Chicken Little, the sky is falling. Ha, ha

Amazon does a publicity stunt for Cyber-Monday and all the Amazon-haters and Doom & Gloomers
come out of the woodwork with bombs, privacy issues and taking jobs from workers. All the time Amazon wasn't first. It seems
as thought an Australian company tested UAV to deliver school books in Australia, and Domino's tested
UAV's to deliver a couple of Pizzas in the UK.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336324/Dominos-builds-DRONE-deliver-pizzas-air-beat-traffic.html

Gee, are we heading into kindergarten with this discussion now!!!:rolleyes2:{sm2}

Tom

 

[TomB]

I can see this particular form of delivery causing ALL sorts of problems. In a security-conscious society like ours, who needs a bomb delivery system like this?:rolleyes2: -- Al

Naughty boy Al...you have just given Bih Laden's mob an idea for another string to their bow....cheers TomB

 

[lancer]

Naughty boy Al...you have just given Bih Laden's mob an idea for another string to their bow....cheers TomB

I agree, it wasn't the brightest idea for me to share, but seeing as how I am no technogenius and I saw it, someone in the badmen's camp would have figured this one out anyway... :rolleyes2: -- Al