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Amazon is experimenting with drones that will deliver packages within 30 minutes. CEO Jeff Bezos made the announcement in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday night with Charlie Rose.
Bezos expects the drones to be fully autonomous and in operation within four or five years. He said there are numerous tests and regulations to deal with in the meantime. Amazon calls the drone delivery service Prime Air. No humans are involved. The small plastic package containing your items are loaded underneath a drone, which Amazon calls an octocopter, and automatically flown to your house.
CBS teased the "60 Minutes" segment repeatedly during football games Sunday, with Bezos saying he had a "big surprise" to share with everyone.
Here's a video of the Amazon drones in action:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-60-minutes-surprise-2013-12#ixzz2mKMhNF6Z
darkangel218
(13,985 posts)xchrom
(108,903 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)There will be pranksters, however, who want to bring one down.
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RC
(25,592 posts)And it will happen. Swat teams, bomb squads... A fun time for all.
Or a drone is captured and reprogrammed and delivers an incendiary device somewhere. Or worse yet, hard drugs, like you know, Marijuana. Just wait till those delivery boxes become common place and people don't pay attention to them anymore.
I can see the ape shit responses now. You think leaving your lunch, in a brown paper bag, on the park bench or post somewhere is over the top, just you wait.
Javaman
(62,532 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)If there aren't large versions of those things unloading and loading cargo ships automatically within in the next 30 years, I'll be shocked.