This startup is bringing same-day drone shipping to everyone in the world

[@freethink]

Do you think drone shipping will take off?

[@skywalktriceiam]

that's punny😆...yes.

[@D1G1TALFOX]

😎

[@TheLinposterIsSus]

I will steal your drones and sell them for parts

[@michaelolatunji2100]

Not with those restrictive drone regulations

[@evanjones5133]

No... say each person pays $25 for their package, it takes up 1/10 of the space in the drone. $250 per flight is made maybe. Say I drone could do 2 flights a day which is highly unlikely.. where are the drones going to park? One drone makes $500 a day, costs maybe $50,000 to make one, would be a little less than 3 years just to pay itself off. That’s not counting insurance, pilot pay, engineer pay.. the list goes on. Also, (this is a big one) If a drone crashes into a building or a house and injures someone, that millions of dollars in legal fees. I just can’t see how this business could be profitable. That’s just my thoughts though. :)

[@Onemessagefoundationismyfav]

I have a feeling by “World” they mean “US”

[@pritammondal6122]

just like Hollywood movie save the world.

[@roentgenishere]

@@pritammondal6122 🤣😹

[@veryconfused9768]

Yeah

[@ThirstysURL]

LOL

[@iainburgess8577]

Depends. Same day from one side of the planet to the other? Not soon, tho I believe the actual air time for an international, flight one side of the planet to the other, is something like 16hrs. Worldwide drone coverage? kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHbFg4mErbFnasU

[@dieselphiend]

"Free, same day shipping to everyone on the planet." that's more ambitious than extreme ultraviolet lithography. Good luck.

[@slevinshafel9395]

Free? hahaha it cost 10.000$ to operate who pay that? what about R&D that is free aswell. You think the person who spend his time and money there dont have family to feed? Nothing is free.

[@WordsCannotExplainMe]

0:14 showing Norway and talking about the developing world

[@jho20-22]

Do you know where in Norway this is? It looks stunning!

[@interfearance3269]

@@jho20-22 henningsvaer in the lofoten archipelago

[@jho20-22]

@@interfearance3269 Thank you, much appreciated.

[@Nyruami]

I really don´t understand why those guys aren´t talking to air transportation authorities before they invest millions into products that will never make it to market because they do not comply with air regulation standards. Everybody seems to assume that those authorities will simply bend to their genius once they saw the product, but that´s not how it works. Air transport regulations exist to keep air transport the safest mode of travel and transportation, and every new product has to be built according those regulations. Those regulations won´t change because you can transport goods cheaper to poor people in Africa, those regulations will not change because air taxis flown from one street in your town to another bypassing all that traffic would be cool, those regulations will not change because you feel there should be a completely new class for semi-automatically flown multi-copters. All those entrepreneurs who built something like that, like Volocopter, SureFly, and these guys are bound to go broke, they are sitting on a product that is ready to be mass-produced, but will not be allowed to fly.

[@digitalsamurai42]

Because it's easier to engage in wishful thinking

[@puppeteer6736]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5OVe6qloMmpgac

[@f.d.6667]

Wow. A video to impress 1st year business school students...

[@teofilol2666]

In the alternative KZbinr's world, everything is coming

[@derekk.2263]

This reads like an advertisement for the company. And like it was written by Ryan from the office.

[@Napstone]

Lolz 😂

[@robbythunder6386]

Very cool.. Somewhat sketchy But overall as is.. Very cool & I respect the entrepreneurship and grind of the whole team 💪😎👍

[@adtc]

Why sketchy?

[@skywalktriceiam]

I know, right?!😉

[@itsoktolovechina]

'First major hurdle, is getting this to fly'.... End of video for me.... Ehang is king right now

[@americanbobtail1]

@@adtc - No real business plan factoring actual logistics and regulations. This is an incubator just praying to be acquired by the oligarchs for $$$.

[@othoapproto9603]

we are fighting this in our community.

[@presidentcyanats4005]

How long until Amazon buys it?

[@skywalktriceiam]

they signed the paperwork yesterday😉😆

[@freethink]

Haha, they are working on drone shipping themselves! So far it seems mostly short-range, though, while this is longer range. Certainly not far fetched to imagine they might buy them or come out with a competitor. www.freethink.com/articles/drone-delivery

[@marcv2648]

Amazon just cut most of their drone delivery staff and are down to 1 pilot. I read they are able to deliver to two houses in the proximity of their College Station, TX facility.

[@luderickwong]

it will become the cheapest aerial bombardment, once you get a address, you can sent any junk ads, pyrotechnics, bio hazard, chemicals to residential area in the name of delivery services. dropping of cargo and drones by accident can punch your roof and windows and you never know who did it. and it comes 24/7/365 noisy when your neighbor order pizza, leaking package of food and drinks trail the way at roof difficult to clean up and nobody admit any responsibility. not to mention they can peep your daughter's room at 8th floor if they want to. no, not even a delivery boy to complain at. wait to see people hunt them down retaliate by jamming, nets and guns. it is a uneducated stupid idea, your convenience violates the privacy of everyone in entire area. well, you can still use it unless you live in a place with no neighbour at all. everything mention here will only apply to you and your house then.

[@marvin19966]

tell me more about this peeping daughter sir

[@banzaiwill7672]

Just watched a video about water being the life blood of civilization. Now I hear same day shipping is. 🙄 Imagine my surprise...

[@digitalsamurai42]

Think they said 'logistics' is

[@ThirstysURL]

Bees are essential...cold wind blows

[@johnevans6399]

I genuinely admire the intent but I'm not sure what it is meant to do. You can't have these things flying and landing anywhere near the public. Morons would deliberately decapitate themselves using the rotors, so they could sue the company. But good luck anyway.

[@evanjones5133]

Maybe they could make a building in Litterally every city that has a helicopter pad near and have their own mail deliverers. I just can’t see how they would be able to make profit.

[@coderentity2079]

If it's not for the US, then this is fine. But I wonder how do headless people sue?

[@averagesauceenjoyer7209]

This is the problem with witnesses, they can easily help themselves to get money from they hate and startup companies, this biblical legal system is really showing it's falliure. but who am I to criticise.🤣 god bless america amen... lol

[@neilrenavikar3585]

@@evanjones5133 it’s too bad. We’ve had this tech for over 20 years now and it’s practically impossible to bring the aviation cost down.

[@neilrenavikar3585]

@@coderentity2079 families of headless people .

[@skywalktriceiam]

somebody's gotta do it🤷‍♀️

[@freethink]

Haha, that's the spirit!

[@skywalktriceiam]

I watched this again to see that very purdy little plane😍 And, although I don't condone it, I was thinking they would do especially well with a clandestine clientele ;) Speaking of clandestine, Chaparral is also a multi purpose herb. Some years ago, before "such products" were readily available as they are now, I included it as one of the main ingredients in a (foul-tasting😝) tea I made for someone to drink for some days before taking a urine test (for cannabis). He passed.😎🌲

[@TurnRacing]

of course a 'startup' like this comes out of SF

[@curtisfoster540]

Funny...lotta skepticism in the comments, and rightfully so! But not everyone knows how much FAA, DOT, NASA, Boeing, Uber, Verizon (using their network for drone communication over long distances), Google (Alphabet), and many others have invested to facilitate startups like this actually succeeding. And the vast majority of startups in this space are no where near as far along as these guys (most quit during R&D, which can be spirit-crushing). My money is on these guys making it. There timing couldn't be better considering the support systems being developed by others in parallel. I'm definitely a fan of what I see so far, and wish them all the best!

[@roshhandle]

Cool I want to see this drone working in my home country where road construction is too hard

[@jaceNZ75]

Its business models like this that are co writing legislation/laws that ban us from flying hobby drones. You can already read it in existing policies. Soon we won't be able to fly a toy drone in our own yards because it could be a hazard to 'their" business operations.👎

[@forcesightknight]

Ok, now use it to bring wounded soldiers and people to an aid station. Hooked up with IV unit and other medic and corpsman stuff. It's perfect for a litter barer unit. Just get me my 10 percent consulting fee. More ideas where that came from. Semper fi

[@DemocracyDecoded]

Its just a concept lol, i thought its being rolled out, This video is way too late, I've seen this concept back in 2010.

[@ckdigitaltheqof6th210]

Its a very independent way of sending and receiving packages, but when this demand reaches massive to population counts, they will require sky path nods of travel by/through, like holo-grams/loops. At least no stop signs involved.

[@kikevilla5091]

This is being done already at pretty "big" scale with companies such as Wing, Manna, Flytrex among others. The cool thing is that is everything automated, and if the routes are well designed you can fit a lot of VTOL in the sky at the same time

[@ultramarinus2478]

Good design you have there. Maybe might help, if the bow and back pairs of liftrotors can turn 90 degrees, and cooperate with the pusher rotor. Your cargo bay is interesting, but it might be more convenient for both operators and customers, if the drone switches into hovering mode OVER the target area and lets the cargobay alone descent on a rope down, after the touch dump the cargo in the target area automaticaly and immediatley start to reel the cargo bay back to the drone. BTW, it depends how far you want to travel with the drones, but for longer routes it might be more interesting to use jet engine(s), as the main propeling unit for airplane mode. Not to mention, you should stretch a little bit your targeted customer group. - Deliveries (amazon - like purchases and food deliveries obviously). - deliveries of medical and humanitarian materiel for governments (even internaly for governments) and non-profit organizations. Quick materiel deliveries in industry, if the completing process is (due to bad logistics) lacking a type of part. Quick deliveries of desired goods on luxury yachts. - Emergency support and relief. Help to the firefighters and reservation rangers, with establishing ropes for evacuation, sprinkling water on locations of interest, sensor sweeping area for people and/or big animals in addition to (or instead) of manned air vehicles. - Agriculture (sprinkling the crops with prefered juices) - At least support logistic missions for military (Navy especially), but possible militarized version of your drone with weapons is not impossible to imagine.

[@ImUrtastyflava]

curious, are you an engineer and worked on this before?

[@patrickmurphy3759]

The answer Alec is what are government subsidies

[@vulcan4d]

If you invent silent drones sure otherwise meet the same fate as the concord.

[@AnOceanOnFire]

Good luck getting this passing the FAA and CAA. I would love this, genuinely, but its very hard to make it legal.

[@benamos2878]

Not in the EU or UK as they have brought in laws to ban autonomous drones, I know as I was working on one.

[@benimmortal5858]

Do you work for a drone company?

[@benamos2878]

@@benimmortal5858 A robotics company, drones were one side of the company for industrial inspection, crop monitoring, search and rescue etc using a single drone body with interchangeable sensor packages and software. I'm now working on care robots for the elderly.

[@benimmortal5858]

@@benamos2878 interesting, I'm into farming, mainly "kava farming" and can the drones be repurposed to for example "spray on weeds only ?", like can the software use camera technology to distinguish between kava plants and weed plants?

[@benamos2878]

@@benimmortal5858 Reducing water and argichemical use was part of the farming side of project and it used Deep Learning AI onboard to distinguish crops from weeds,. It's all been mothballed for now, there is is the possibility of taking that development overseas once the current health situation is resolved, though the chance for a first mover advantage may well have been lost.

[@sdprz7893]

That makes no sense, why would they do that?

[@slevinshafel9395]

2:47 that is not bad. Nice

[@jacquacooper]

Hope this makes it in warehouses all across America in every county.

[@CC-si3cr]

Okay, I never heard one time about how is someone supposed to get the cargo off of this drone thing. Where is this drone supposed to fly into? I do not understand any of this. This man got ten million dollars to make a same-day shipping/drone flying company, but it seems like he's gonna have to sell 'em to Amazon so they can put the items in the drone. Right?

[@eveangelique6624]

Why didn't you mention that drone shipping of this sort is already inuse in Kenya ?

[@tozanf]

1:23 … let’s take a selfie! 🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶

[@roe2012]

20 years from now, development of this project would help human life easier

[@ramiabram6010]

Cartels will love this drone

[@novemberalpha6023]

Doorstep cocaine service

[@ramiabram6010]

@@novemberalpha6023 cartel prime

[@c2sartinkprinthub757]

the question is how much is the delivery per mile?

[@marvin19966]

10 sir thankyou

[@nitinkumar29]

It seems to fail. The cost to transport a parcel with drone will cost more, than what it cost by road transport plus they will have to account for downtime of charging time of the batteries, maintenance, theft of the drone, accident, lost parcel because of navigation error to the destination etc. Businesses are built around economy not the other way round.

[@laos85]

I call this bullcrap. The old way of shipping invloves 100 of people in transporting alone. This will cost billiin more in the long run since you got to hire all of them thag Is super slow, is stressful and frustration for customers who paid for the product they earn it.

[@dennistucker1153]

I like the video but I don't believe the concept will work anytime in the near future. Possibly in 50 years.

[@ryansmithc]

Vague business model and overly ambitious claims... sounds like a marketing video 🤨

[@max.5527]

Nice but why does the cargo bay need to be autonomous? Seems like a waste of money if you could just do that maually. Is there a specific reason?

[@deafpv4317]

Great engineering but horrible concept. With the autonomous electric vehicle industry being decades ahead of these last mile drone startups it'll be a long time before this is viable. Good Luck! Who funds stuff like this?

[@marcv2648]

People who like to lose money.

[@sennasilverpro9219]

Teleporting is the end point of travel and transportation

[@novaart6181]

actual one day shipping already realized in China, Maybe by large drone like this is first, but I am still not sure, because I saw a lot of project like that in China.

[@kailab6157]

People talking they would crash into building, and restricted law etc. No they wouldn't, this is middle miles in logistics, not first or last miles that they have to fly over the cities. I think this project have a long way to go but they would succeed when they can optimize the business model by applying automation, hydrogen fuel...

[@farrenyellow6599]

I believe digital goods wud replace physical goods before it ever went full scale

[@Barxxo]

Somewhere someone is already thinking about autonomous pirating

[@luchacefox259]

500 lbs payload in the right spot could change the world. LOL

[@daltonmedina9902]

Thank you

[@realpeterz]

Nice progress but gotta speed up! EHang is at least 5 years ahead.

[@naomirobel9814]

Didn’t Rwanda do this 2 years ago?

[@eco_logic]

how is this going to deliver a product from the US to me in NZ. It can only fly 300 miles.

[@julianmac]

Why the fake jet engine noises 3:46 . common man that's just bad

[@genz21stcenturymemeshorts23]

Guess who's going to get acquired by Amazon

[@lorddarthvader6289]

As someone from a third world country. Waiting 2 months for Amazon packages to arrive is not very fun

[@vornamenachname4850]

At least you have a shitty phone to escape real life

[@relentlessmadman]

I remember in the 60s some one thought to use lighter than air ships to revolutionize the shipping industry! but it didn't fly!

[@abishekwillie]

insane that was my business idea in to reality sad i can't afford these things

[@frostsmaker8966]

This is the future.

[@relentlessmadman]

was there a future before recorded history? and how did that end up?

[@frostsmaker8966]

@@relentlessmadman The future is already here, we just didn't use it yet.

[@BaybieK]

Its too big, it can't land in congested cities.

[@A3dprintedman]

0:54 where’s your y-axis at?

[@Dancingontgesun1942]

Someday shipping until one of these things kills someone.

[@sinamos3945]

Vapor!¡!!!!!!!

[@hailelleultesera8643]

that's a big boy

[@SteadySailing23]

Nice bro! I will invest in your technology! Only if you use Xrp for all transactions! Think about it! Let me know!

[@evanjones5133]

Chia to the MOON

[@daltonmedina9902]

Nice

[@MUCKFOOT399]

use a giant catapult way safer/smarter

[@beachdays561]

So what is the threat of electronic self-driving trucks? Has the race already been lost

[@laos85]

Yes self driving car has been killing people on the road.

[@MeetAdonis]

Who did the sound design? It's horrible! Music beat do not match with he storyline or the intentions. It's too distracting.

[@thekingoftheworld9553]

"developing world" 0:14 This is Norway.......

[@alterego157]

Same difference

[@mr.scientist7205]

Can I work with you .

[@codingmafia1642]

Great idea but won't be successful Saw video of other guy creating fast drones to catch/stop other drones so most of deliveries will never reach their destination

[@MartinLichtblau]

Similar to @Wingcopter from Germany.

[@MusikCassette]

a bit of an unellegant disign for that problem.

[@importon]

This company aint gonna be the ones to do it sorry. that liftoff was sketchy

[@adityapatil3792]

5:43 👍✅🔥

[@Channel-tr1hx]

Cause managing your buys is too mainstream

[@abderrahimacheban3289]

Like whaaaaat, this vid is on fire 🔥🔥

[@superduckman45]

What changed from the original video that was deleted?

[@Jeadbrz]

Sloppy quality control. The video at 1:19 used to have "San Fransisco" instead of the now corrected version. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more mistakes. This isn't the first time I've seen this happen. They make decent videos about interesting subjects but don't spend enough time reviewing before they post.

[@superduckman45]

@@Jeadbrz Thank you

[@freethink]

Glad you like our videos, and apologies - we do indeed make mistakes from time to time! Good job spotting the typo, and reminding us of our parents who will never be satisfied with us no matter what we do.

[@evanjones5133]

@@freethink Very unprofessional...

[@ryzlot]

Airplanes do not fly direct A to B JR

[@D1G1TALFOX]

N I c e . . . 😎 🌆 🍾

[@palmsky1119]

Idk about this one.

[@Nathan15038]

Oh maybe they’ll make a drone Called it

[@krishnenduray1758]

try to make cheap insulin , ur countrymen really need it .

[@punkkap]

Nice, but a long, long way to go. I would suggest hiring young brilliant people to check out the obvious mistakes taken in your approach. I will not be naming any, but coming from a leading drone company, you bet I have a few.

[@coderentity2079]

The solution is the gyrocopter with AI.

[@Wolfman7870]

This is why you gotta ban guns and private drone use. Otherwise, it will be a free for all.

[@slevinshafel9395]

i can do it better. at least in therms of fuel eficiency and distance.

[@Ripstop_pilot]

NO. DONT WANT IT. DONT NEED IT. STOP THIS BEFORE IT OPENS DOORS FOR GOD KNOWS WHAT.

[@jimmychonga9713]

I hope this fails. We really don't need more noise and annoyance in the world. People need to reduce consumption.

[@snazzysailor]

Drugs from Colombia to Europe…

[@syntaxandRender]

I'm the 69th like NICE!!

[@joshuamartis7821]

last

[@evanjones5133]

@@TimelyTurtle Nobody cares that nobody cares that you think nobody cares what he thinks...

[@goliathsinatra2912]

Can you deliver me a mail order bride 👰‍♀️ in a drone?

[@theedge5584]

Lmao Not gonna work...PEOPLE will just blow em out of the sky n swipe your package

[@limabravo6065]

If one of things shows up over my property, I will open fire on it

[@wanderingknight10]

90% of your video was of no quality unless you are a 5 year old. You spent 5 minutes telling us you built a drone ? What about the logistics side of the drone delivery?

[@quinnrooney4001]

Flt

[@fmunro123]

That thing don't even fly. LAME

[@keeno5567]

What?

[@fmunro123]

Hopping isn't flying. I was disipointed

[@marcv2648]

Nobody needs this.

[@917bodyfitness]

A HUGE BRICK WALL IS COST 💰💰💰💰of it cost more money for a company to hire the drone to deliver than the company made from customer orders then they won’t get PAID!!!