Consider that drones substitute for cars and trucks driving through neighborhoods.
For the same payload delivered, ground vehicles cause significantly more property damage, environmental damage, and injuries/deaths.
For the same payload delivered, ground vehicles cause significantly more property damage, environmental damage, and injuries/deaths.
Heh, you've not heard my neighbors riced out car then.
But the biggest harm is people getting hit by vehicles. Delivery drones are much smaller and don't spend nearly as much time near people. Since drones can deliver stuff more quickly than large vans, they also substitute for individuals driving to a store to pick something up. So the total risk to pedestrians is even less than you might expect from eliminating many van deliveries.
I live in a noisy neighborhood with commercial truck thru traffic.
I don't have any particular love for the noise or the trucks, but the kind of people who complain about noise and machines will mostly don't select to live here which is good because I find those people to be bad generally.