Delivery trucks are way more quiet for each ton of goods they deliver. I’d rather have two trucks filled to the top on the road once a day instead of dozens of delivery drones delivering goods around the clock. It means the customer won’t get his toothbrush 30 minutes after ordering but at least the rest can live in peace.
To be clear, I don't really give a damn about the noise either way. I care about reducing the risk of loss of life in automobile accidents.
So more lives saved and less jobs to go around sounds like a wonderful future existence.
Fewer jobs, not less, and yes, that does sound wonderful to me. You think that sounds like some kind of dystopia, there being more people alive who perhaps have to look for different jobs? Versus those same people being dead and people still doing tedious work we could automate? I think that sounds more dystopian, personally.
Depends on your definition of global over-population and quality of life I suppose.
A negligible decrease in mortality in exchange for an intermittent high-pitched buzzing sound in any populated area... I think I'll pass on this one.
Delivery vehicles that can be replaced by drones are what, 0.1% to 1% of all vehicles maybe? So you'll have both the same car traffic and the noise from drones ;-)
With that quick of a click to delivery, do you really think you'll have the same car traffic? The amount of times you'd need to drive to get anything would dramatically decrease.
That's sort of true now. No one really has to go to Target because we have Amazon Prime Pantry, but I still see that place full of cars. I don't have any numbers, but I'm willing to bet delivery commerce has increased dramatically in the last ten years, but I doubt traffic has decreased proportionally.
For small items, maybe, not for anything too large for a drone to deliver.
I'm not sure decreased traffic will be an effect. Only increased air traffic. And more amazon sales.