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Originally Posted by HardDrive
Boy howdy are we going to need regulations around this. Can you imagine how annoying it would be to have drones buzzing overhead 24/7? Maybe have an ‘intermodal’ service where the flying drone takes it to a depot in the neighborhood, and a road going drone brings it to your door. College campuses already have fleets of bots delivering food.
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This is the exact wrong application of VTOL UAS...open and shrouded rotor UAS are dangerous and inefficient for package delivery. What until Little Scooter gets his hand mangled, and he will, then the lawsuits begin:
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I have been involved in three separate "studies" of the issue and we never found the business case, cost or efficiency, for drone delivery. It takes a big VTOL UAS to deliver a 5lb package with a 35 to 40 minute endurance.
The only business case that made sense to us was using larger drones to fly cargo to under used airports, and there are a lot of them, to get packages close without large trucks over the road. Airport to airport is very efficient and predictable.
Great idea, needs a lot of innovation to make work in a safe, sustainable manner.