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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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[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And that's not even getting into the point of how much easier and less illegal it is to snipe an Amazon drone out of the sky for its payload than it is to assault an Amazon delivery truck and driver. It may not be more common in the long run than porch pirates, because that's also easy and low risk, but I 100% fully guarantee you our redneck population will be out in some capacity hunting for Christmas presents.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

"In the land of the drones, the man with the t-shirt cannon is king."

[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not gonna lie, this had never occurred to me. But now that it has, it is 100% gonna be my hobby of the future

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bow hunting both gives the drone a sporting chance, and helps you soak in that Horizon Zero Dawn feel.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Instructions unclear, built air compressor powered blunderbuss

[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm setting up nets as we speak! Going to trawl the skies for goods