Florida Allows Unmanned Drones on Sidewalks

Resinhead

Can't wait.

[video]https://youtu.be/qmHwXf8JUOw[/video]

Tarponator

GROUPER SCOOPER wrote: »

So just how many of those would have to be built to replace lets say 50 UPS or FEDX trucks?

Drivers will be fine.

If the drones make the trucks twice as efficient, they will need half as many drivers.

Once that happens ten times, there will be 1 driver left for every 1000 there was before.

It's only a matter of time. The writing is on the wall. The operative question is when not if, IMO.

Big Battery

Cool idea, but wont work. Too slow. Will get hit by cars. Will be sabotaged, stolen or pirated. Will harm some unsuspecting person.

Airborne Drone delivery will be what happens first. You will put up a new kind of mailbox that is on the roof or out of some window. Safer, quicker, more precise, autonomous capable. Just need to work out the rules relative to aviation.

CatBox

Big Battery wrote: »

Cool idea, but wont work. Too slow. Will get hit by cars. Will be sabotaged, stolen or pirated. Will harm some unsuspecting person.

Airborne Drone delivery will be what happens first. You will put up a new kind of mailbox that is on the roof or out of some window. Safer, quicker, more precise, autonomous capable. Just need to work out the rules relative to aviation.

Nope, too many variables and not enough industry influences for airborne (aka lobbyists and $$$$).....

Airborne maybe down the road, if they can resolve the sound profile. Ground based first.

Big Battery

CatBox wrote: »

Nope, too many variables and not enough industry influences for airborne (aka lobbyists and $$$$).....

Airborne maybe down the road, if they can resolve the sound profile. Ground based first.

Nah.. airborne will be here very soon, under 5 years. Ground based has way too many variables and very prone to hijacking(airborne is too but less so). I look forward to both. Crap, I need a part for my boat and I am a half mile offshore... boom, delivered.

wahoowacker01

The U.S. military holds the strings on dead on GPS. The public sector gets GPS with varying errors. Last year some of the big Mississippi delta farmers were using their drones to check their crops and quite a few crashed, seems the GPS signals were disabled for some reason or another. Start sending packages in high density areas without error free GPS, and it will cause problems.

As an aside, my sons got me a drone for Christmas, and I spend as much time fishing that sucker out of trees as I do flying it. I am getting more proficient tho.

Big Battery

wahoowacker01 wrote: »

The U.S. military holds the strings on dead on GPS. The public sector gets GPS with varying errors. Last year some of the big Mississippi delta farmers were using their drones to check their crops and quite a few crashed, seems the GPS signals were disabled for some reason or another. Start sending packages in high density areas without error free GPS, and it will cause problems.

As an aside, my sons got me a drone for Christmas, and I spend as much time fishing that sucker out of trees as I do flying it. I am getting more proficient tho.

True... but that would impact ALL autonomous vehicles. Ground based could navigate to the side of the road but rely on GPS and Cell coverage. A nice sunspot and all of it quits.

CatBox

The major players a looking toward other technologies to augment GPS navigation. Many have plans to build out low power iot mesh networks for routing/tracking/navigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LPWAN

It will be interesting to see how all of this works out

GROUPER SCOOPER

Tarponator wrote: »

If the drones make the trucks twice as efficient, they will need half as many drivers.

Once that happens ten times, there will be 1 driver left for every 1000 there was before.

It's only a matter of time. The writing is on the wall. The operative question is when not if, IMO.

How many packages does a stanard truck carry?

How many packages can one of those drones carry?


We'd have to build a highway system just for those drones to carry what a truck does......there'd be millions of these things runnin around to be able to compete with a ups/fedex truck.

How about....how many of those drones will fit on a truck?

Not gonna make a dent

hatcity

and when there is no sidewalk

reelpleasure

tunaman wrote: »

I always thought drones would be fun shooting practice...

They are.

Tarponator

GROUPER SCOOPER wrote: »

How many packages does a stanard truck carry?

How many packages can one of those drones carry?


We'd have to build a highway system just for those drones to carry what a truck does......there'd be millions of these things runnin around to be able to compete with a ups/fedex truck.

How about....how many of those drones will fit on a truck?

Not gonna make a dent

I don't think you're getting it.

Imagine a UPS truck pulling into your neighborhood, releasing a dozen drones to drop off packages, return to the truck and go to the next neighborhood.

Where before you'd need 10 drivers to do the same work in the same time, now you need one plus drones.

Hell, with the advances in autonomous driving, eventually you might not even need the driver at all.

mustang190

And when the majority of people are unemployed they will have plenty of time on their hands to order things that the drones can deliver.

Tarponator

Some will be unemployed much sooner than others, methinks.