Last-Mile Drone Delivery
The cluster discusses using drones for last-mile package delivery, including proposals like delivery trucks as mobile drone launch platforms, debates on scalability versus human drivers, and applications in urban, rural, or low-infrastructure areas.
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hows it less scalable than hiring delivery drivers? esp if they have large drones capable of delivering multiple packages?
The solution is don't use delivery drones.
Wouldn't Amazon's same day delivery "fleet" be better suited for something like that?
Fleet of drones can deliver it.
They are doing high value deliveries in low infrastructure environments.I live in a rural region in the US and can pretty much drive anywhere within 50 miles in about an hour, with hundreds of pounds of whatever. There's no market for slightly faster deliveries of 3 pounds.
I wonder if this can be used in delivery of goods inside a city.
These trucks are solving the "last mile" delivery. Do you see many USPS delivery vans on the highway? That's the market.
How to take humans out of the equation? Use drones to make the deliveries?!
This problem doesn't have to be solves with warehouses. Drones are a solution to the last mile problem. Simply make delivery trucks into mobile drone launching platforms and then Amazon or UPS can drive into a neighborhood and drones will deliver all the packages light enough and the driver will deliver all the heavy ones.
Now can we make delivery companies do this?