Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy.

You need to be home to put out the landing target and to make sure that a porch pirate doesn’t make off with your item or that it doesn’t roll into the street (which happened once to Lord and Silverman). But your car can’t be in the driveway. Letting the drone land in the backyard would avoid some of these problems, but not if there are trees.

Amazon has also warned customers that drone delivery is unavailable during periods of high demand for drone delivery.

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    2 years ago

    Yes, as I said, you and others are justifying Amazon putting profit over people.

    I have asked this multiple times: What exactly are those thousands of delivery drivers supposed to do when Amazon fires them all for not being “optimal?”

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      I think that UBI is an obvious place to start, and I think it should give them the freedom to pursue something they actually want to do. Automation is coming for all of our jobs, but you seem to be fixated on irrationally protecting those jobs instead of taking steps to ensure that automation actually benefits all of us.

      In your ideal world, are there really still delivery drivers?

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        2 years ago

        Shouldn’t we maybe implement the UBI first, then fire all the delivery drivers? Because otherwise, I’m seeing a huge increase in the homelessness crisis.