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Delivery drones

zell12

Tesco starting deliveries via drone in Oranmore in October
max 4kg loads though
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54102580 https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/technology/arid-40046324.html

Any other companies doing this in Galway?
I'm only aware of one delivering medication from mainland to Arainn. How long before the skies are humming with these and people object?

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Panda5000

Love drones, love tech, love food/drink deliveries but very mixed feelings about this becoming the norm and the sky buzzing with drones. Current quiet spots could become flight paths between retailers and residential areas.

Effects

Panda5000 wrote: »

Current quiet spots could become flight paths between retailers and residential areas.

They aren't flying at eye level, so you won't hear them that much.

Panda5000

Effects wrote: »

They aren't flying at eye level, so you won't hear them that much.

They're big beasts! Even when walking the prom I pick up on small DJI mavics buzzing around at a considerable height, these would need to fly very high to go unnoticed.

Del.Monte

Drones for these sort of deliveries is utter madness as well as accidents waiting to happen. There's all sorts of useful things the technology can be used for as has been mentioned - blood deliveries, emergencies, offshore islands, remote locations in the Third World etc.

Doctors room ghost

When the fad of using drones to deliver shopping goes off them, the hipsters will resort back to sending notes via courier pigeon retro style

Kingp35

Del.Monte wrote: »

Drones for these sort of deliveries is utter madness as well as accidents waiting to happen. There's all sorts of useful things the technology can be used for as has been mentioned - blood deliveries, emergencies, offshore islands, remote locations in the Third World etc.

It's a trial, if it's successful then I expect it to be rolled out into more important industries. There has been a few deliveries to my housing estate with no issues.

biko

Del.Monte wrote: »

Drones for these sort of deliveries is utter madness as well as accidents waiting to happen. There's all sorts of useful things the technology can be used for as has been mentioned - blood deliveries, emergencies, offshore islands, remote locations in the Third World etc.

There are already drones in Rwanda.

To be honest, the way the world works is that nothing gets invented to deliver vaccine to villages in Africa.
Things are developed for profit and then the technology can be used in humanitarian ways also.
It's just the way things are.

For me I can't wait to get pizzas etc delivered by drone.

Effects

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

When the fad of using drones to deliver shopping goes off them, the hipsters will resort back to sending notes via courier pigeon retro style

You're a hipster yourself though, so why are you against them?

Effects

Panda5000 wrote: »

Even when walking the prom I pick up on small DJI mavics buzzing around at a considerable height, these would need to fly very high to go unnoticed.

They don't make as much noise as a car driving past though, do they?
So maybe just take it as a trade off. With more electric cars these days, you have less noise, but it's replaced by the sound of drones.

Doctors room ghost

Effects wrote: »

You're a hipster yourself though, so why are you against them?

I just think it’s a load of sh1te.it would have its place in the outback maybe delivering medicine etc where there’s no built up areas and power lines and people have to travel long distance.
If it’s used as it is now within a few kms of a shop to deliver coffee and a load of staff involved in its operation it’s nonsense.

[Deleted User]

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

I just think it’s a load of sh1te.it would have its place in the outback maybe delivering medicine etc where there’s no built up areas and power lines and people have to travel long distance.
If it’s used as it is now within a few kms of a shop to deliver coffee and a load of staff involved in its operation it’s nonsense.

Its a trial. How do you get to having reliable services in the outback? By doing trials. The trial is from the tesco in Oranmore - a place which gets rural very quickly.

load of staff involved in its operation it’s nonsense.

The reason for the 'load of staff' is because its a trial. Once flightpaths are established it can be automated.

cooperguy

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

I just think it’s a load of sh1te.it would have its place in the outback maybe delivering medicine etc where there’s no built up areas and power lines and people have to travel long distance.
If it’s used as it is now within a few kms of a shop to deliver coffee and a load of staff involved in its operation it’s nonsense.

Much faster deliveries from more variety of places..

Panda5000

Effects wrote: »

They don't make as much noise as a car driving past though, do they?
So maybe just take it as a trade off. With more electric cars these days, you have less noise, but it's replaced by the sound of drones.

My point was you can get away from the main road to avoid cars and get some peace. Drones will fly over you in previously quiet spots as they take a straight line from A to B.

Robbo

And with that, it ends after massive losses and a probable future pivot towards the arms industry. As ever for something that's a creepy libertarian's dystopian wet dream, regulation is to blame. The final regulatory straw being not being able to buzz and record your granny's coffin in Dundrum as she completes her final journey. **** ghouls.

My advice to anyone in the Oranmore area is to make sure you put in robust SARs and exercise your right to erasure as you can be damn sure that your data is at best going to sit with a disinterested liquidator or at worst get sold on.

smurf492

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124563583#Comment_124563583

Wow that was an absolute assault of sh**e to describe the end of the current model of drone delivery in ireland... Down a conspiracy rabbit hole when the fact is bigger consumer markets lie elsewhere...

Paddico

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124563583#Comment_124563583

Stay off the drugs will ya!! FFS