Amazon looks at dropping packages from as high as 25 feet

1. Packages dropping on your head and potentially killing you

2. Wasteful packaging ("airbags") that will undoubtedly end up in a landfill

3. Noisy drones flying around the sky introducing more noise pollution than what we already deal with in urban and suburban areas

Some ideas deserve to die.

> It’s not that drones get tired. It’s just that if they’re delivering your box of cat food and low-rise socks, dropping down to put them on your patio, and then flying back up for the next delivery takes power they need to conserve.

Descending and ascending slowly should use nearly the same amount of energy as hovering. Am I missing something? Also the added time spent doing the descending then ascending versus just dropping the package from hovering is certainly negligible compared to the energy needed to fly from depot to drop-off and back.

Why not go with ablative packaging and ballistic atmospheric re-entry?

Then the airbags deploy at altitude and it does a mars lander bounce, or better yet stick the landing with a controlled bursting airbag.

Suddenly, all that AI work into detecting dogs and cats, makes sense!

Reminds me of when the delivery guys "bounced" my new fridge off the street, taking it out of the truck.

Now I can get the same service from Amazon!

Is this really more efficient? A bunch of smaller drones making individual trips between a supply point and destination per package versus a truck loading up once to serve each area?

So I'm a couple of Amazon regulatory approvals and $400 in anvil orders away from building my own live-action RoadRunner cartoon?

I got a paywall.

Here's the paywall bypassed link to story: https://outline.com/jvkzEv

We need some laws to regulate these drones ASAP. You're telling me that we're allowing Amazon to fly drones and drop shit out of the sky whenever it wants? This company can't even reliably deliver a package using its own couriers, yet we have to trust them with a system that could potentially kill people? That's fucking insane.