"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/02/2019 at 11:01 • Filed to: This Is Stupid
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
10/02/2019 at 11:01 • Filed to: This Is Stupid | 1
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What could possibly go wrong?
Flight Forward is the first company to claim the Part 135 Standard certification, and it’ll be able to operate an unlimited number of drones. The machines and their payloads can weigh more than 55 pounds and UPS can fly its drones at night.
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Who wants to put money on how long it will take for one of these drones with its 55-pound payload crashing on top of somebody’s head or coming down on an interstate and causing a massive pileup?
sony1492
> ttyymmnn
10/02/2019 at 11:15 |
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vondon302
> ttyymmnn
10/02/2019 at 11:18 |
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First w eek or some Yahoo shoots one down.
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ttyymmnn
> sony1492
10/02/2019 at 11:24 |
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It’s closer than we think.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> ttyymmnn
10/02/2019 at 11:35 |
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In a city it may be stupid. In rural areas it makes a ton of sense. Especially when you consider this area gets over 200" of snow and not everyone does a very good job of keeping their sometimes very long driveways cleaned out. Then there is springtime when the ground is thawing and those long driveways can become impassable due to mud. This lets the UPS driver park on the road and get the packages delivered without the risk of getting stuck.
JustAnotherG6
> ttyymmnn
10/02/2019 at 11:39 |
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I would imagine they need to be abl e to launch and recover multiple (while driving optimally ) in order to make this worth the time and expense.
user314
> ttyymmnn
10/02/2019 at 11:52 |
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Skynet would last about 45 minutes until Anonymous managed to hack it. That or it BSODs.
facw
> ttyymmnn
10/02/2019 at 12:09 |
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Will be interesting to see how well these work. The real benefit will be when you have self-driving vans, which otherwise would have no way to deliver packages. With or without a driver, I can imagine the van serving as an aircraft carrier, releasing drone when in range and recovering them when they return.
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/02/2019 at 12:40 |
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I ordered ski poles one December and the UPS driver wouldn’t go down my relatively short 300 foot driveway even tho it was plowed. He also delivers to my office so I told him I though my package was on his truck and got it at the office.
Brickman
> ttyymmnn
10/02/2019 at 15:36 |
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Neat. cant wait to run the drone over while im backing out the driveway.