Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones can fly even farther after FAA approval

Thanks, updated.

Their theory is that they can replace Human employees with this and thus save money.

And on top of which, these are definitely noisy nuisances, and as a result people are gonna fuck with them, and it's inevitable that eventually it's gonna hurt someone, which'll cause a huge backlash and expensive lawsuits, etc etc etc.

The only situation i can see these being even potentially viable is in very rural areas, where delivery routes are expensive, people have lots of open land for it to safely reach the ground, and there aren't a lot of nearby neighbors to annoy

I mean, if I could order some random stuff and have it delivered by drone in less than an hour even if it's 1am then that's pretty great.

Given how the "shop and walk out" process worked, they'll probably outsource it to people paid to throw packages on parachutes over your fence while they make a buzzing noise.

Yeah, my first reaction to this was "Amazon is still doing drone delivery?"

There's still the issue of birds, which do not like these things in their airspace and, depending on the size, will absolutely either attack drones or be maimed by them. Also, helicopters and small planes often fly quite low. We haven't had a great record with autonomous cars, but sure, let's try autonomous flying drones. What could go wrong?