It's going to be a great time when the crows, raccoons, and other semi-intelligent wildlife discover that these drones have food in them at seemingly random reward schedules.
Sure, you can give the drones little tasers to keep the animals away, depending on your locality. But knowing what I know about bears and crows, almost nothing is going to stop them. Especially when some influencer jerk tries tempting a bunch of them with a box just oozing honey or some other high value food.
Except for those 4-8 prop blades spinning at high rpm. Then multiple layers of packaging to get the item. It'll be interesting to see if it actually happens, my prediction is that trash bags will still be preferable risk/reward.
And birds incidents with actual planes show that it's not the same reasoning as human warfare : inflicting damage to the enemy while taking none. For delivery companies it won't matter if the birds got out safely or died in the process of destroying their $$$$ drones.
Solar + Nuclear plz
It just doesn't do so directly, so we ignore the number of children who die from pulmonary issues.
I wonder how long it'd take to befriend a few crows, and teach them there's valuable stuff in delivery drones?
1. Dunston Checks In (1996)
2. Monkey Trouble (1994)
perps + traitors ... :)
or alternatively, which some of us know, HNers don't like humor by some people, but like it by others. seen many examples of that in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Precision_Airdrop_System
But now I wonder if we will "silent spring" them too.