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Drones: Here & Now Anyone Wonder Why All The New Trucks (Retrofit?)
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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 3664706" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>There is no current or forseeable battery technology that will allow drones to deliver a significant amount of packages.</p><p>In order to provide any sort of labor savings, the drone would need to be able to fly up long driveways in rural areas while the driver proceeded to and delivered to the next stop. </p><p>The drone has a 10 lb weight limit. It cannot deliver to apartments or businesses. It cannot deliver to multistory buildings. It cannot deliver multiple or oversized packages. And on an urban route with high residential stop density, it will take longer to open the roof hatch, load the drone, wait for its return, and then secure it and close the hatch than it would to just walk up to the door.</p><p>Where I see drones being useful is in urban areas to deliver food or prescriptions or medication. I can easily forsee the day where I call my local Subway or Dominos and have my dinner flown to my house via drone. But doing the job of a package car driver? No.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 3664706, member: 14668"] There is no current or forseeable battery technology that will allow drones to deliver a significant amount of packages. In order to provide any sort of labor savings, the drone would need to be able to fly up long driveways in rural areas while the driver proceeded to and delivered to the next stop. The drone has a 10 lb weight limit. It cannot deliver to apartments or businesses. It cannot deliver to multistory buildings. It cannot deliver multiple or oversized packages. And on an urban route with high residential stop density, it will take longer to open the roof hatch, load the drone, wait for its return, and then secure it and close the hatch than it would to just walk up to the door. Where I see drones being useful is in urban areas to deliver food or prescriptions or medication. I can easily forsee the day where I call my local Subway or Dominos and have my dinner flown to my house via drone. But doing the job of a package car driver? No. [/QUOTE]
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