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Originally Posted by Manabi
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Yeah, I still think it's a pipe dream for now, maybe in another 5-10 years. But I doubt I'll live to see it happen where I live. The town's just too small to make drone delivery cost-effective, and lots of hills and trees around. Not exactly great terrain for drone deliveries either.
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Yeah, I agree.
But, in densely-populated areas near a distribution center, I think that it's viable. I seriously doubt that people will ever be able to get such delivery at standard shipping rates, though.
Frankly, I think that the major hurdle will be getting laws and such put in place for the operation of drones. Otherwise, there will eventually be so many flying around that they will crash into each other. And, I'm afraid, with government operating reactively most of the time instead of proactively, that there is going to have to be some incident with an airplane and a drone (i.e., collision) before laws and rules and protocols and such will be put in place to regulate it all sufficiently. I hope that I'm wrong.