[PapaBear3625]

The real problem is that there are just too few uses that would be economically viable. A truck carries hundreds of packages hundreds of miles on a route. The costs associated with flight, even unmanned drone flight is excessive and has extremely limited cargo capabilities.

Currently we have the driver parking, getting out, bringing the package to the door, and going back.

Visualize a truck with a drone on top. As the truck approaches the house, the drone is passed the package by an internal mechanism, the drone zips the package to the door, drops it off, and flies back to the truck (which has not necessarily even stopped). It then re-attaches itself to the roof landing point, which is also the charging station.

[taildragger]

You shouldn’t have posted that, that might be patentable. Add a driver-less pre-programmed truck and the various delivery companies stocks would be cash cows and their revenues would go through the moon. Ditto that if we get breakthrough batteries and the stop and go of the trucks is a regen mode. Even if the are CNG powered that would add to the revenue as was well.

[Jim from C-Town]

That is what I was getting at in the previous post. Possibly the truck being a launching pad for numerous drones that fly back and forth from truck to home and back again where they are reloaded with the next delivery.