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.

  • @[email protected]
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    38 months ago

    According to The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety:

    A total of 4,714 people died in large truck crashes in 2021, a 17 percent increase compared with 2020. Sixteen percent of these deaths were truck occupants, 68 percent were occupants of cars and other passenger vehicles, and 15 percent were pedestrians, bicyclists or motorcyclists.

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        You asked for a statistic on deaths caused by delivery drivers because you know it probably doesn’t exist. Your mind is clearly already made up, so why even bother posting?

            • Flying SquidOP
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              08 months ago

              I’m not really expecting someone who tells me what I think instead of asks me to be a friend.

              • @[email protected]
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                18 months ago

                Okay, fine, I’ll bite. Once.

                Delivery trucks require a human to drive.

                Ok… and? How is that a problem that needs solving?

                How is that not a problem that needs solving?