Why aren't USPS/Amazon selling all their trucks and replacing them with drones?
In particular, you can get discounts for pre-sorting and bundling your mailings, formatting things in a way that is easier for USPS to automate, and for high volume.
i would also be okay with the peoples jobs being replaced by the robots offered early retirement, paid fully by these big corps.. but of course that means the big corps would charge the rest of us more money over the longrun so that cost would not hurt their bottom line
Electric delivery trucks are also much quieter than a drone.
And, as another commenter suggested, heavy packages will still be done by truck. So we’ll have trucks AND drones.
The typical delivery truck here has rap music playing so loud you can hear it two blocks away, no exaggeration. Drones could possibly maybe not do that?
A car or truck might be a bit noisy but it's low frequency and typically will drive by once maybe twice a day, and you probably can't hear it more than half a block from your house and only on the road side. if it's delivering next door the truck is making no noise during delivery.
The drones are like giant mosquitoes with direct line of site to all sides of your house. They can be heard from half a mile away and they can deliver constantly. if it's delivering next door it will also deliver it's annoying noise the entire time it's hovering nearby.
At one point I was doing some gardening and had 6 flyovers in 30 minutes directly over my head. 3 out 3 back. extremely invasive, extremely noisy, extremely annoying. And unlike a truck there's really no limit to how many drones you could experience in a day.
Drone delivery is a blight.
coldcode•17h ago
jarbus•17h ago
mycall•10h ago
Teever•17h ago
Someone needs to do the R&D work first and then roll out real world implementations to iron out the bugs.
xnx•17h ago
It's more of a surprise that delivering a hamburger in a ton of metal and plastic with a human driver makes financial sense.
ortusdux•17h ago
burnt-resistor•16h ago