Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.
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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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All the time? I'd like to see the statistics on deaths caused by delivery drivers.
And I'm not sure why you think similar things wouldn't happen with drones.
According to The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety:
How many of those were package delivery drivers?
You asked for a statistic on deaths caused by delivery drivers because you know it probably doesn’t exist. Your mind is clearly already made up, so why even bother posting?
I know it? What else do I know?
You’re really making a lot of friends in these comments lol
I'm not really expecting someone who tells me what I think instead of asks me to be a friend.
Okay, fine, I’ll bite. Once.
How is that not a problem that needs solving?
Because it's not a problem.
And what is your evidence that delivery trucks are the optimal method of delivery?
"Optimal" only matters to Amazon's accountants. The trucks work fine. They keep thousands of people employed.
I have no idea why so many people are trying to justify Amazon putting profits over people.
That’s where you’re wrong. The “optimal” method of delivery matters to every stakeholder in the current system. Yes, Amazon would make more money. Probably too much more. Delivery would also likely be cheaper for customers. And delivery trucks in cities would finally stop blocking the fucking road whenever they feel like it.
Finally, have you considered the possibility that delivery trucks are suboptimal for delivery drivers? It’s no secret that the lifestyle of a delivery driver is extremely unhealthy, and I can’t imagine it’s particularly mentally stimulating.
This is the same rhetoric I hear about AI, and it’s very disheartening. The fact that corporations are gearing up these tools to further exploit the population isn’t an argument against the tools, it’s an argument against the corporations.
Yes, as I said, you and others are justifying Amazon putting profit over people.
I have asked this multiple times: What exactly are those thousands of delivery drivers supposed to do when Amazon fires them all for not being "optimal?"
...why would they? Even in the rare occurrence that it were to fall out of the sky there's very little chance it would hit anyone. And even in the exceptionally rare occurrence that it were to hit someone, they're incredibly light and unlikely to cause serious damage, much less kill anyone.
...unless it's in a city.
...unless it's a large drone carrying a heavy package.
If we're going to replace delivery drivers with drones, they have to be able to carry more than a single five-pound item.
Even harder in a city since it would have to nosedive between buildings.
One of many reasons they have weight limits.
They'll likely never replace them entirely.
You know there are places in cities with tons of pedestrians, right? And sometimes things from high up fall on them and kill them, right?
Also, if they have weight limits, we won't be replacing drivers with them. There will still be drivers. So I'm not sure how this saves lives.