Canada Ping!
Posted on 03/30/2015 9:23:41 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
VANCOUVER – Spurned by U.S. regulators, Amazon.com has turned to the one country where flying delivery robots are still welcome: Canada.
On Monday, the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper revealed that the online retail giant is testing its latest prototypes for package-carrying drones at a top-secret site in British Columbia.
“We are rapidly experimenting and iterating on Amazon Prime Air … including outdoors at a rural test site in Canada,” wrote Amazon spokesperson Kristen Kish in an email to the National Post.
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Located a mere 600 metres from the U.S. border, the Canadian testing grounds fulfill a lingering threat by Amazon to take their drone research abroad unless U.S. regulators could speed up their glacial approval process for unmanned aircraft.
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Canada Ping!
I’m not too sure I’d want a thosand dollar Nikkor lens delivered by drone, but I don’t see anything but anal officiousness blocking the way to the future. We need more regulation! Something might improve that we missed taxing!
They’ll soon run out of their robots if they send them to my yard.
It would become a graveyard of robot parts after my dog finished with them.
Or will their drones be equipped to shoot our dogs.
“Or will their drones be equipped to shoot our dogs.”
I don’t know, but I’m pretty well equipped to shoot drones. Sounds like there might even be some good sport in it!
Wonder if we’ll have to get tags every year and there will be a limit?
Kfi am in LA just got a news drone.
I wanna drone.
The only possible advantage I see in drone delivery I for the driver to park at some central point and deliver the packages in the area.
I don’t know how the driver will be able to confirm, with high certainty, how he got the package to the right house.
I’d be concerned with any inaccuracies with Googlemaps or whatever and have the package dropped at the wrong house.
The future of drones might not be local delivery to your house. It might be city to city, large loads.
They might compete with Fedex.
With all due respect to mom & pop, as a consequence of the parents of Google big-wigs evidently not making sure that their children were taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, Google wigs evidently don’t understand that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate things like drones.
And if 17A hadn’t been ratified then federal senators probably would have either killed the bill or objected to the excutive action excuse that established such regulations.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
Is Amazon going into the BC bud business, across the border bud bombers?
May be a mistake. Canadians are avid skeet and trap shooters.
from what i read, the drone delivery would be an option for people close to one of their distribution centres. it looks like you would have, for example, 3 options, normal post, fedex or drone. you could pick with drone as the fastest and most expensive. they were looking at a time delivery, which honestly i cant remember but its short. so i guess the example is if you wanted the lens for a kids parts now, you pick drone and get it in a few hours. also going on amazons normal delivery rules, if it doesnt deliver they take the cost or if its damaged you return it.
i totally agree on the regulation issue, this is going to happen one way or another. i am also not sure it will do flyovers so you can expect them to follow rivers, roads etc rather than buzz your neighbours. this also means if they fail it will crash at the side of a road or a river rather than into someones living room.at least thats my understanding from what i read.
Shooting a delivery drone makes about as much sense as shooting a FedEx truck.
It’s your package why would you shoot it?
bunch of retards here.....
I can see using drones to deliver to Dawson or Whitehorse. Crowded skies? Not likely, or smart.
Why is everyone so negative about drones? I see endless possibilities, mostly in the way they will be in-your-face to the greenies.
Little electric guys running quick errands instead of sending the kids down to the local store to buy sour cream. By running quick errands, or the store using them to deliver pizza will lower car millage, that is what the greenies want, but it won’t work in high-density apartment buildings very well.
A plumber that needs a part won’t have to secure his project, hop in the truck and lose valuable time.
Drones will provide many new jobs as pilots, and with Tesla coming out next month with autonomous cars, delivery drivers will be losing jobs in the near future.
I could have a drone walk my kids to school, the park or to a theater.
They already have drone races, dog fights will be next. And with goggles on, it will be as if you are doing the flying.
It will be annoying watching those things carrying advertisement banners up and down the beach, but then again, it will create jobs. The cities will fight it, but you can tell a drone where to go and then tell it to stay. A store owner will wire the thing to a power source that acts as a tether and it will replace those big blow up clowns or those fan blown floppy things. The drone can hold up banners or have scrolling text.
Drones will be 3D printed, not made in China. 3D printing will assure a quick evolution and provide even more jobs. And that is another thing in-your-face to the greenies, 3D printing of these drones can’t be stopped by them, 3D printing is clean, there is nothing they can complain about with you turning your garage into a 3D print shop, manufacturing will return to my commie state California and in the process, speed up the evolution of 3D printing.
bunch of retards here.....>>>>>>>>>>>>
Just a Canadian feral privacy response.I have it loaded
and ready.
You probably won’t even know they’re there. And depending on the income level of your neighbors you probably have drones flying over your property right now.
The central point is their warehouse. I see this as taking the “UPS sucks” out of their delivery structure. No longer will they have a company they’re paying running over packages, refusing to deliver packages, or messing up their schedule by going on strike.
Remember pilots of drones get to look through the camera, so assuming your address is visible somewhere they can easily confirm.
Whaat does a radio news department want with a drone?
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