Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone 397
Z80xxc! writes "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed during a CBS 60 Minutes interview that the company is working on a service called 'Prime Air' to deliver packages by autonomous octocopter drones within 30 minutes of hitting the 'buy' button. The plan still requires more testing and FAA approval, but Bezos predicts it'll be available to the public in the next 4-5 years.
With a lot of backlash against drones, and some towns even offering bounties to shoot them down, will this technology ever take off, or is this just another one of Amazon's eccentric CEO's fantastical flight ideas?"
Re:Hmmmm (Score:5, Funny)
1. This technology
2. Drone capable of capturing other drones in flight
3. Arrrr!
Bravo Bezos for global PR coup (Score:5, Funny)
Harry Potter gets real! (Score:4, Funny)
Next up: package delivered by drone will sound a siren if not opened immediately.
Personally, I would like to go back to the good old days when we used owls for that.
Re:Watch out for "within 4-5 years" (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, "5-year plans" are never serious...
my first order (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Crime? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stupid media bait (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Stupid media bait (Score:5, Funny)
It could grip it by the HDMI port.
Re:Hacker's delight (Score:4, Funny)
I think throwing people into the mix changes things. People act differenmtly when there are people around, even to the point that apparently a paper silhouette of a person will reduce thefts.
You realize Home Alone was not a documentary, right?
Re:Stupid media bait (Score:5, Funny)
It's a simple question of weight ratios. A one kilogram octocoptor could not carry a three kilogram PS4.
Depends on whether the PS4 is region-coded to Europe or Africa.
Re:Crime? (Score:5, Funny)
"I also have never known anyone who's had something taken from their doorstep."
Really?
I just put all my waste and junk in a used paper box with some gift wrapping around at the front door and it disappears within minutes.