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Amazon shows off new prototype delivery drone
CNET ^ | 11/29/15 | Steven Musil

Posted on 11/30/2015 2:57:44 AM PST by Libloather

Amazon is offering a closer look at the drones it plans to use to eventually deliver customers' packages, nearly two years to the day after the Internet retailer first teased us with its ambitions for the unmanned aerial vehicles.

In a video posted to YouTube on Sunday (embedded below), Amazon showed off a new prototype drone it hopes to use to deliver small packages to customers in fewer than 30 minutes. Unlike a previous demonstration offered by Amazon that showed packages being carried below the drone, the new video shows the prototype accepting a package into its fuselage before delivery.

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KEYWORDS: amazon; delivery; drone; prototype
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Never watched Top Gear.

Anyone who rearranges Piers Morgan’s face can’t be all bad!


21 posted on 11/30/2015 4:42:56 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Libloather

Heh. Candygram for Mongo...


22 posted on 11/30/2015 4:43:14 AM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: csvset

The video indicates a 15 mile range. Somewhat limited, although I would imagine any deliveries they offload from UPS would provide a cost saving on shipping.


23 posted on 11/30/2015 4:45:22 AM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: wrench

LOL


24 posted on 11/30/2015 4:53:53 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: wrench

You shouldn’t mame me laugh that much this early. Bbbaaawwwaashhh


25 posted on 11/30/2015 5:52:09 AM PST by goodnesswins (hey..Wussie Americans....ISIS is coming. Are you ready?)
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To: Vinnie

not to mention telephone wires and trees.........


26 posted on 11/30/2015 5:56:56 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: exit82

Annoying? We love Jeremy!


27 posted on 11/30/2015 5:57:43 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (#BlackJellyBeansMatter)
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To: Libloather

No one will want the noise.


28 posted on 11/30/2015 7:31:12 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Dupes for Donald, Chumps for Trump)
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To: Vinnie
Interceptor drones. ???

Oh. Like the two guys in Goodfellas who intercepted cigarettes from those trucks?

Now I am intrigued.

Think of the Bozo's ordering I-stuff via drones.

Could make a killin’. :-)

29 posted on 11/30/2015 9:29:44 AM PST by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: Libloather; All

This is a gimmick to be sure. Watch what the other hand will be doing. I.e. Using private people to deliver packages ala uber or lyft.


30 posted on 11/30/2015 9:33:31 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Look closely at any evil and most times you'll find the unmistakable handprint of caesar.)
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To: Vinnie
Birds will attack

Blnk
31 posted on 11/30/2015 2:09:14 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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