the new google drone looks good
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28964260

Looks very good.

Great now lets hope they don't use them to map/sniff wifi again...

Another DVTimes news report :helpme

this is the future. you will have "hot spots" in your yard for delivery. you order something, dron delivers!

I can see people using this mass in 20years. Only apartments will have problem :)

Nice.

All my dildo and lube will be flying around in one of these soon amd dropped at my door.

"Looks good" compared to what?

Next to the Amazone one.

This one avoids needing to land and looks like it will go much further.

They are two different types of machine you idiot. One is a plane and one is a quadcopter.

It will be interesting to see how these work.

I am not sure they will be used to go say 100 miles.

I could see them say put on a delivery truck. Then the truck goes to a location and the drones deliver the goods.

Ages ago I did a delivery job to help somone out. Most deliveries were close together. The problem was the time it got to go street to street. I could see you doing say 5 or 6 diliveries with drones in the same time it takes to do 1 dilivery (thats a saving of 1 to two hours). Plus saving on fuel.

Thats how I would use them.

You could cut out 90% of your delivery vans and just use a few big ones and do a lot of deliveries quick.

However the down side is that most deliveries I did would be way too heavy for such drones.

In fact I am not sure I delivered much that a drone could carry.

I know that.

Thats why I think this one is better.

Apartments will have designated "drop zones".

During a small gathering over this past weekend Pizza was ordered for delivery. 1 of the attendees suggested that "GPS tracking chips" be embedded into packaging materials so live tracking could be obtained. He was hungry!

Do we really want these things flying around all the time?

It's bad enough we have the post office, UPS and Fedex combing our streets. I work from home and it's gotten to the point where I can tell the differences between the three just by how they sound.

Why don't we put this shit underground already? Think about it - our houses are surrounded by shit underground that is delivered to and from our houses. Gas, power, phone, internet, cable tv, water, sewage.... It's time to start building tunnels under the streets and include postal and package deliveries, and then also garbage and recycling.

Laugh at me now, but I've been talking about our government building desalination plants for the past decade and our government is finally starting to see things my way.

You called someone an idiot and then said "one is a plane" when it clearly is not. A plane has a pilot, and when it doesn't it's called a drone.

Have a nice day.

wtf did i just see.

So GFY's resident buffoon, Rochard, making himself like even more of an idiot than GFY's resident idiot, DVTimes. Pay attention retard.

Flying RC Airplanes has been a hobby for, I don't know...40 years or so. The term "drone" has come into play in the last 10. It doesn't matter if it has a pilot or not, one is a plane type craft and the other is a multi-roter craft.

Now, who's the moron? :1orglaugh

Within a few years (and I mean less than ten), we will have trucks that self drive.

I would expect that these will be set up so they drive to your house, send you a text and you pick up your item from the truck.

These could run for hundreds of miles.

I expect in the UK that many HGV's will be auto driven (they are what we call big trucks in the UK). This is going to save a vast amount of paying people.

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But as I have stated, drones cannot carry heavy items. It means that the amount of deliveries they can make are going to be small.


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Fast food is going to be a big use to them as often fast food is not heavy and quicker its delivered the better, plus often the fast food shop is close by.

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