Manna ceasing drone delivery flights

I thought there were regulations from the IAA.

Why do think there isn't?

Get up off your hole and walk to a coffee shop or McDonald's. Having these yokes zooming everywhere is ridiculous. Frivolous nonsense that has zero space in a sensible society. I'm not against using drones for higher purposes whatever that might be but delivering coffee to someone too lazy to make one isn't a valid reason to have them.

Again you are being too narrow minded or narrowly focussed. Medicine could include prescription medication to elderly etc.

It could also move "meals on wheels" to "meals on wings" especially for vulnerable people.

Actually the use cases will only grow as the technology improves - but the baseline infrastructure needs to be created

If you're number 4 or 5 how cold will it be. The Yaris will be stuck in traffic aswell.

If we have hoards of drones filling the sky then do we have hoards of Yaris zooming around. Yes actually.

I think the mistake the company made was trying to pioneer an innovative service in a nimby country that hates change. We need to see it take off elsewhere and then we'll want it here too.

The Yaris is 10x slower it's stuck in the traffic getting out of Blanch Centre. End of. The drones can deliver all 5 orders at the same time.

I don't think fast food by drone is a useful business. But most of the complaints will equally apply to all fast food deliveries. If they all stopped it would be good thing.

A drone has an insulated box and it's direct and delivers in a fraction of the time.

One time I ordered from a food courier on moped he took an age to get here (from the app I could see he did a bunch of deliveries before me) and dropped half the food on driveway. Had to go back and redo half the other and it was cold. Never used them again. Look on the internet it's full of complaints about food delivery. Most of them near me all use cars. Drive like lunatics around the place.

All food delivery is flawed. Especially one that relies on the road network that's gridlocked a lot of the time.

What way did it work in Blanch? If you ordered a McDonalds did one of their staff come out to load the drone? I couldn't see it working in towns where restaurants are on the main street. They're huge fecking things.

drone use has a legitimate use in delivery of items to hospitals , but delivery coffee and takeaways is not legitimate use, imo

Maybe it's 15x.

I've never had a delivery from an eBike in D15. See them all the time in town but not in D15. I don't get much take out and generally the same local place. In many years they've never used an e bike. Local food places I've never seen an eBike at them.

That's barely an argument at all. The road noise generated by traffic on a 60-80kmh road would far exceed that of a drone.

Privacy. Well the public would see a lot more from the top deck of a double-decker bus than a drone which doesn't record (based on what Manna state at least).

The main issue is the back garden issue / crossing directly over houses, which clearly does have a love severe impact.

The only traffic noise that these drones are remotely comparable to are excessively noisy motorbikes and souped-up boy-racer dick-mobiles, both of which i would also love to see legislated out of existence.