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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Does anyone know how the energy usage would compare to truck delivery? It seems to me this would be higher.
Driverless cars will, if people's hands can be pried off their steering wheels, annually save hundreds of thousands of the million lives lost worldwide to vehicle crashes. By contrast, this inane idea would cost at least a few lives.
It can only work in neighborhoods of low density single family dwellings without too many trees and utility wires around. City dwellers would be out of luck.
If the idea was successful, people would deliberately buy homes that worked with the system, accentuating suburban sprawl. This is just the kind of housing that anyone who cares about global warming (and I realize there are all kinds of opinion here on that) should want to discourage.
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Putting aside the fact that these things are supposed to be able to deliver to windows and may be unable to deliver to urban sprawl over 3 kilometers away and aimed almost exclusively at city dwellers, who would buy a home based on the availability of drone delivery, Would you for instance, commute an extra 5-50 miles a day, just so you could have drone delivery? Possibly you would but why? Do you get a package an hour or even one a day that you must absolutely have now?
Helen