Is drone delivery practical?

Drones can deliver your online packages in just minutes. Whether it's Amazon, Google, or local startups, find out in this video if drone delivery is revolutionizing e-commerce.
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[@kosheronlynobacon1542]

I can't lie drones look like fun moving targets

[@Joel-ee4yh]

They will be when they're used to take over the world XD

[@User_92020]

My exact thought

[@Grandmasterjord]

Especially if you want to end up in jail. 🤣 People don’t realize it’s a federal crime to shoot down a drone.

[@christopherremillard2574]

@@Grandmasterjord Kinda hard to pin who did though unless you catch the person on camera and they didn't do anything to hide themselves.

[@Grandmasterjord]

@@christopherremillard2574 You’re 100% correct. Haha I just hope it will be a soft deterrent. 🤣

[@johncostello7993]

Finally a video showing the reality of drone delivery. They are a game changer in a lot of areas but delivering packages is not one of those areas.

[@kishascape]

That’s overindulgent fad people for you. Always mindlessly trying to shove their infantile ideology into everything where it don’t belong.

[@jaxd7206]

What a time to be alive. Thank you for the amazing and inspiring video.

[@deniszaika9534]

Maybe it's cheaper to make genetically modified flying humans.

[@tpmsnewenglandworld6069]

The flying drop delivery?! Amazing!

[@PittyCute7]

Differences: In earliest time products transported by flight. Now products delivered by Drones

[@ravenclawgamer6367]

Me : Orders a ceramic statue from e commerce website Webiste : Flying drop delivery

[@scienceGuy6666]

If drones became as huge as a small truck or van it's a desirable options for companies to adopt on.

[@dhruvdwivedi3732]

0:05 Imagine having money

[@User_92020]

Imagine a drone dropping a package anf landing on a person.

[@cjam7298]

I would image the odds of a delivery truck accident are much higher

[@ahmedo7875]

@@cjam7298 Yh but a drone is more unpredictable and can land literally anywhere. A truck is probably always on a road and will collide with another car. Drone could land into dry grass and cause wildfires with its lithium battery exploding or cause an entire apartment building to go up in flames or hit a car or school

[@cjam7298]

@@ahmedo7875 or a drone could land on a truck and then that truck smashes into a drone warehouse, sending hundreds of other drones flying into other trucks. and repeat.

[@Thebreakdownshow1]

There is one issue with drone delivery the same thing that exists with helicopter travel. It’s just easier to deal with a broken truck vs a flying object that is now falling

[@josephcro2138]

Helicopter and delivery drone are 2 entirely different things. Helicopter weight is in tons, drones in 10-15 pounds. Plus drone are powered by a battery and electromotors, they are far less complex than helicopter.

[@gweedomurray9923]

@@josephcro2138 ~ Drones large enough to carry packages including payload weight will be much more than 10-15 pounds.

[@josephcro2138]

@@gweedomurray9923 make it 100 pounds, it's still miles away from 5 tons

[@notyourmomyousnowflake3533]

heck even if its 1 pound, once it picks up velocity while falling and lands on someone's head- somebody say lawsuit for death/injury

[@ahmedo7875]

@@josephcro2138 imagine 10-15 pounds landing on your head from 200-300m from the sky

[@shaimabeevivs9316]

good👍

[@mjstow]

Oh jeez. He actually said: "zero point zero five cents per mile" when five *cents* per mile was shown on screen. Someone is innumerate. Never mind; he's only out by two orders of magnitude.

[@user-lz2qr6ih4c]

stock up to down not leftto right then upgrade vision untility up todown not amazon left to right

[@JohnSmith-fl5gc]

Have you seen terrible car crashings???? It doesn't mean that cars are suck!! And you have to take them all away.... It means that you have to be careful will driving and keep all the road rules....

[@brandonhunter3036]

Why don't drones have parachutes or something to minimize the impact of falling from the sky. Seems inevitable that it would cause great safety concerns for humans and the environment at scale. Love the concept but we need to find ways to make them safer and lose public trust before it can even be earned.

[@jameshuckins9821]

Skeet shooting with prizes!! Hell yeah I can't wait for them to be flying around!!!

[@MichaelAlperstein]

Are you aware that would be considered an act of terrorism? Not hating or anything. Just curious. My understanding is that the drones are going to be classified as aircrafts and shooting them down would be considered an act of terrorism.

[@Grandmasterjord]

@@MichaelAlperstein I don’t know about it being at act of terrorism specifically but it is a federal crime that will get people jail time regardless.

[@kishascape]

@@Grandmasterjord also you will have a felony record and lose your right to ever own firearms again. Next best thing short of purging the gene pool.

[@Grandmasterjord]

@@kishascape You got it! 👍🏻

[@rhrh2025]

What could go wrong? LOL

[@User_92020]

A package dropping from the sky and landing on your nuts.

[@MichelleW870]

someone hijacking the drone hub (large truck or a big bloody airship drone) and taking down a couple windows or a plane

[@benny3262]

👍

[@carlosadjamil]

For drugs delivery it flows ok

[@carlsaganlives5112]

Our guy's been using drones for a while now, recreational drugs for personal use don't weigh much, easy payload, fun.

[@susancarver1977]

I wouldn't want to send anything too valuable....like a diamond ring!

[@ekowyamoah5807]

One guy did that, during his wedding , in my country 😅😅😅 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGKZqYSmndJ8o8k

[@susancarver1977]

Somebody might shoot it down!

[@namansrivastava6199]

Machine dominance will effect human employment

[@samuellolango9720]

thats what these companies want, to cut out the human employment so they can save millions

[@gweedomurray9923]

@@samuellolango9720 ~ Unemployed Humans with no finances wont be buying things.

[@joeirwin5527]

Yes. It's practical and costs about 4 cents per mile.

[@MertBolat0]

are you interested in it?

[@jonathansoko1085]

Is it practical when people start shooting them down and stealing?

[@ahmedo7875]

It’s not practical really considering most customers will be in densely populated areas and the margin for error for a drone to malfunction will be really low and any problems could have bad effects like hitting buildings and people

[@AryanArora-xr4pw]

​@@ahmedo7875 I agree that it isn't for densely populated area but it could really be helpful in remote areas or less populated area where you won't get basic things easily.

[@111sravankumar]

0:01 😂😂😂

[@Korayullah]

ravens are getting their revenge

[@MegaMissfitz]

In that case i might treat myself to a festive flyby let me know if you want any snacks dropped off? Sweet dreams 😤😤😤😤

[@S-K555]

She wanted to grab drone as well

[@LBG-cf8gu]

to say nothing of airspace constraints...

[@kkklover89]

Interesting engineering are just a bunch of armchair engineers.

[@debjyotichattopadhyay6679]

Amazon with infinitely more funding and resources

[@TedBackus]

i knew the tech was nowhere near the level of being autonomous, even with human pilots its not feasible. there may be places it can be implemented, but there are so many limitations. for example if you have large apartment buildings, drones couldnt deliver to them, unless there was a specific group drone drop off, where the tenant would come down & get it, which presents a host of other issues. you dont need to be a genius to see the challenges that are presented with this, which is why amazon dropped it

[@shashankdesai8650]

get your facts right. amazon are way ahead than what you estimate in terms of machine learning

[@CousinSchultz]

Not practical for delivery of everyday items and using them for such is doomed for failure. Too many risks, too many lawyers, too many weather variables and no problem being solved. Let me know when one of these drone delivery companies turn a profit by delivering everyday items. How long will investors continue to throw money at a problem that doesn't exist? I'm quite certain we have delivery of everyday items within 6 miles of a major retailer figured out.

[@murthy2680]

I may be Strow stone.. Hahaha

[@Red-32]

bad

[@ericswain4177]

Drone delivery is a very nitch system at best.

[@JohnKelly-jo9bh]

Carbon emission, Really. That Old Lie Again????

[@sergiychupryna2952]

Widespread Drones delivery will harm birds population. As well Delivery drones will collide with Passenger Drones ..... Broken drones will fall down to people and property, damaging these. Many problems will appear soon.

[@lightsnow2537]

Imagine after years of testing it happens also birds can just move away

[@lyubomir1202]

Also people will definitely try to steal no way this is practical. Imagine: An amazon drone fell from the sky and killed 2 people. The reality is that billionaires want to become more richer by automating everything and removing humans from the equation. Salaries = big loss for companies. Think about it why did they even try to make this drone service a thing when it has the potential to damage,harm,kill, its obvious that Jeff Bezos don't care.

[@Grandmasterjord]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Grandmasterjord]

@@lyubomir1202 You do realize delivery drivers cause accidents every day right? You don’t hear about it much because it’s so normal.

[@lyubomir1202]

@@Grandmasterjord yeah but these drones are waaaay to hazardous than delivery drivers

[@houl8071]

To the genius individuals that think "shoot them down and steal the prize" how the fuck is your DNA still in circulation? C'mon Darwin awards, let's get rid of all these safety labels

[@notyourmomyousnowflake3533]

its easy to have tech to combat that.

[@christopherremillard2574]

@@notyourmomyousnowflake3533 It's expensive to combat that. And it wouldn't be hard to get away with unless your in a heavily surveilled city.

[@joedizzelfoerizle]

I don't remember Covid being that serious 🤔

[@oneinvegas4431]

half this video is baseless facts but still good stuff