Amazon claims that by the year 2018, the packages you order from Amazon, weighing under 5 lbs., will be shipped via drone to your house in as little as thirty minutes. Here is what the drones will look like:
Amazon is lucky to already have many shipping centers scattered around the country. The fleet of drones would take the place of the truck drivers and turn a one to two day shipping window into 30 minutes or less. When I first thought of the idea of drones, I immediately thought of the negatives, the first being drones running into people. Amazon says that at first the drones will be man piloted, eventually going to fully unmanned drones. The risk for harm is low, but there still is a chance that a drone could lose control and seriously hurt somebody. There are many positives as well. With this new delivery system, important things such as medicine would be able to be delivered very quickly, and that is an amazing thing.
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