But we'd just be replacing loud and annoying delivery vans with loud and annoying delivery drones. If anything, flying delivery drones would be more annoying, given that they're buzzing around at greater heights, right outside the window of your mid-rise apartment building. You'd also see a lot more drones, since they're only carrying one package at a time and returning to their depot for each new one. By comparison, a single delivery truck carries up to a couple hundred, depending on their size.

If we ever get to the point where delivery drones might become common place, people are going to lose their freaking minds once they hear the noise. It'll make the normal NIMBYism that pops up every time someone wants to build something in a city to decry the inconvenience of it look positively benign.

A new Rivian-made Amazon Prime electric delivery van went down my street today. Whisper quiet except for the required low-speed noise-maker (like all EVs).