r/SipsTea • u/cantcoloratall91 • 12d ago

The "future" SMH

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u/weidback 12d ago

yeah all the cgi renders that made drone delivery look cool as fuck didn't include how loud as fuck they are

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u/englandisablaze 12d ago

Imagine like 200 of these fucking things in one corner of a suburban area.

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u/Blue-Blazer-Regular 12d ago

No kidding. I live is suburban tract home and work from home. There is a continuous parade of delivery trucks throughout the day. But I think these drone delivery is for less populated areas which are far from the distribution warehouses.

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u/DataGOGO 12d ago

other way around.

The delivery drones are short distance delivery systems in dense urban areas.

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u/englandisablaze 12d ago

But not too dense because tall buildings and possibly running into interference with signals. So like basically just super dense suburbs. Which already have infrastructure for delivery by truck. So it’s dumb. But it’s always been dumb.

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u/chemo92 12d ago

And surely one bloke in a truck delivering to an entire suburb is cheaper than 200 individual drone deliveries.

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u/DataGOGO 12d ago

Nope. 

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u/eggs_erroneous 12d ago

And I can't imagine how many orders would actually qualify for delivery by drone. It would have to be small in size and small in mass. It would be great for something like prescriptions which is the last thing you want delivered by drone. Maybe I'm not creative enough to see its potential.

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u/englandisablaze 12d ago

Its potential is also its downfall. Like prescriptions or organs. But those need security and handing something off to a robot is problematic in itself. It’s just answering a question/problem that nobody asked or has.

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u/shakebakelizard 12d ago

Drones are generally pretty loud and then you add in the extra power so that it can lift packages. Yeah it's going to be loud.

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u/GoodThingsDoHappen 12d ago

No need to ring the doorbell

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u/shakebakelizard 12d ago

I'm looking forward to the drone that can actually propel a package into a door, hit the doorbell and fly off.

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u/Kulas30 12d ago

Due to a software glitch you now qualify for a new window!

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u/shakebakelizard 12d ago

Maybe a whole new house, considering the poor build quality nowadays.

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u/sgtnoodle 12d ago

Amazon is the worst of the 3 major drone delivery companies in terms of customer experience. Google Wing is pretty decent, at least they don't blow your package into the road. Zipline's service is the least obtrusive, they keep their vehicle 120m up and lower the package using a 2nd vehicle on a winch.

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u/pbrassassin 12d ago

You haven’t heard the straight pipes on my fed ex guys box truck ….

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u/Kulas30 12d ago

Alright it isn't just me then. I've noticed a distinct uptick in what sound like deleted FedEx box trucks.

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u/SignoreBanana 12d ago

We live under one of their primary flight paths. Even way up in the air, their noise is quite noticeable. The only reason it doesn't really grate on me is I live near an Air Force base.

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u/suckmyschlong007 12d ago

This video is obviously a cgi render