I’ll Take My Amazon Drone Delivery Now Please

I don't see this ever happening, but then I thought the pencil and paper would never be replaced as the primary means of writing correspondence to a person in another location.     

Yeah, stupidest thing I ever heard of.

USPS has come up with their drone shipment device ....

^ 

ooops... "Drone vs. Drone" - eBay drone nails Amazon drone.

Looks interesting, maybe the future is sooner than I thought?

Out west they issue official drone hunting licenses. 

"There's one..."

"Where?"

"Over there"

Where over..................BAM!!!...........oh."

I see a lot of these things and I can help but think about Maximum Overdrive...

I'd be excited to see this happen, but there are quite a few limitations at the moment. First the FAA has to change some rules for these things to be usable in the first place. Also, not sure it will be a cheaper way of transporting goods to homes.

Nice. Why bother to go out and steal things when you can just hack-a-drone(or shoot one down) and have it dropped off at your door.   Beats the hell out of hijacking trucks!

Jeff Bezos  BTW, there is no "e" in Bozo

So you're telling me for a few extra bucks they'll include a drone in my delivery? I don't really need one but I think that's one of those things you kind of just want to have anyway, like an iPad. #machineuprising #Isurrender

Also http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20131203/

I love the idea; however, I don't see them overcoming all the issues to successfully implement this shipping method countrywide.

More cheap labor for Amazon,

How will the drone deliver to someone living in an apartment building or on the hundreth something floor of a high-rise.

Drone + smart bomb = deliveries go through the roof.

But seriously ... it might be nice for an express-packet like a contract or an important letter.

But seriously ... I think lots of naughty children would place fake orders, wait for it to land at their door, then grab it and then use it for whatever purpose they can think of. Like smashing it against the wall. Or throwing it into a pond. Or just jump on it. Or put a fire cracker in it. Or try to hit it with fireworks. I can think of all kinds of funny stuff you can do with it.

^ Yeah...especially when it takes a picture of you...and you get charged with theft, etc.

More interesting? If one drops out of the sky on the windshield of an 18 wheeler or gasoline tanker. Maybe when it gets sucked into a jet or helicopter engine and the plane/copter falls on a hospital.

Worst case? Screws up ID's delivery. Hell to pay.

Well to be fair, I'd probably be one of the ones using it as a target.

Yes...as I mentioned to Nakor....it's bound to become a new olympic sport...so won't be too successful...even IF the FAA gives approval...;)

Quoting Island, reply 15

Well to be fair, I'd probably be one of the ones using it as a target.

Mwahahaha! 

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/push-for-liftoff-on-drone-deliveries-in-australia-20131014-2vixx.html 

It'll potentially happen first in Oz.  Seems that CASA is more 21st century than the FAA ....;)

Whos that tapping at my window? 

All for the sake of publicity..............typical of some of the games played by Virgin/Branson.........but it can be very effective

^ That's something I didn't think of. Good thinking, Leo the Lion. 

Find an emotionally loaded buzz word (drones), put together a video. Sit back and watch interest spike. No coincidence it's announced in the frenetic 'buying' season.

i'd rather have some courier service drones than the armed police drones Montreal will have next year. at least for now it wont be lethal weapons they say.

http://rt.com/news/canada-montreal-police-drones-694/  :/

This one annoys me because its a moot point. I am in the shipping business (UPS) and I know accidents/incidents happen. Lost a coworker about 5 years ago in an incident where his vehicle was struck and then it caught fire. He was burned to death. Another driver hit and killed a child. The child was skateboarding and hidden by an SUV. He popped out into the street in front of the UPS vehicle. The driver didn't have a chance to see the child and was unable to stop in time. These things will happen no matter what vehicle type is used.

On the other hand, the cost in time and money I can see making this not work. I don't think Amazon realizes how much in resources is reduced by using UPS/FedEx/DHL companies as we can do multiple delieveries (heck have done 15 Amazon packages in 15 stops in 30 minutes a few times) from multiple companies with only one driver/truck and then pass on the savings. Sure its not a straight transfer but amount of volume each member in the chain does (and the driver does the least amount) makes the ratio still 5 to 1 in favor of UPS/FedEx/DHL companies.

Think of it as a marketing ploy. There are RC toys out now called quad copters. Videos already demonstrated how they can be configured to fly in formation, you can find them on youtube. Technically anybody who wants their own private drone can have one. What they do with it is another matter.

not like ups isn't doing it

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/3/5169878/ups-is-researching-its-own-delivery-drones-to-compete-with-amazons

and.... free parcels

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/04/amazons_nonexistent_drone_delivery_army_already_pwned/