Posted on 09/24/2014 9:28:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Medicine deliveries to a pharmacy on a North Sea island will be made by a drone, Deutsche Post announced on Wednesday, in the first project of its kind.
It is the first time that an unmanned drone will be used for a practical business purpose in Europe, the company claims.
Inhabitants and visitors on the island of Juist, which has a population of fewer than 2,000, will be able to order medicines from the Seehund Pharmacy and have them delivered from the mainland by the drone. …
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Doesn’t this open the sender up to someone observing the drone, and taking it’s cargo. It could also lead to armed robbery, placing the intended recipient in jeopardy.
Perhaps a closed society like this (on the island) will reduce that likelihood.
For some reason I find the use of Deutsche and drone in the same sentence very alarming.
The first LEGAL pharmaceutical deliveries by drone.
Why is it legal there, and not in America?
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