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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Drones are a lot like battery technology. Everyone imagines how wonderful it will be, but the issue is that they still haven't made that big breakthrough, thought they have been saying it's just around the corner for a decade now. Drones have to solve the problem of lift capacity, range and control. Even if they solve all that, you still have a range of issues with automated delivery. There was a pretty good article about the problems they need to solve before automated delivery becomes practical about a year ago when Amazon first started talking about drones. It's non trivial for sure. Keep in mind that what they need is automated drone delivery, not remote controlled drone delivery.
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Exactly. For it to really be workable, they need to be able to load up the drone, put in an address, and have it come back to the warehouse automatically. This part shouldn't be too hard. Maybe people have a transponder at their house to offset GPS inaccuracies.
Unfortunately, I can see many drones being waylaid and their packages stolen.
In my opinion, it won't be technology that stops the drone delivery program, but human cussedness.
Shari