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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Never watched Top Gear.
Anyone who rearranges Piers Morgan’s face can’t be all bad!
Heh. Candygram for Mongo...
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.
LOL
You shouldn’t mame me laugh that much this early. Bbbaaawwwaashhh
not to mention telephone wires and trees.........
Annoying? We love Jeremy!
No one will want the noise.
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’. :-)
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.
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