When Amazon starts delivering with drones, what will keep the morons in my neighborhood from stealing the drones?
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November 30th, 2017
I live in a transitioning neighborhood. It used to be full of gangsters, hookers and druggies. The gangsters have all been arrested or shot, the hookers have moved on to other pastures, but there are a few stragglers who are perpetually drunk or high who are still shuffling around possibly waiting for a chance to win a Darwin award.
I convinced them to stop trying to break into my place. But they still have a tendency to steal packages that Amazon leaves on the front porch.
When Amazon starts delivery with drones, I can just see one of these nitwits trying to catch it with a hook or a butterfly net or something.
What would stop that?
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Every drone has sophisticated accelerometers, sirens, GPS and cameras than the Little Girls room in Ray Moore’s house.
The drone is in constant contact with the home office and immediately notifies a string of people and organizations if its sensors are disturbed or pushed out of range.
If I were running the show I’d invest 10 grams of lift capacity and install an RC mine in every one.
As I understand it there will be armed secondary drones poised above major delivery hubs that will strike down upon them with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to steal and destroy its brothers.
I would imagine that Amazon will red-line certain neighborhoods for delivery in pretty much the same way that most delivery companies must already do (and pizza delivery people absolutely do) – whether they admit it publicly or not. FedEx and UPS leave packages at my door every week, and I’ve never had one disappear yet (at least, not one that I was expecting).
I’m looking forward to some entertaining chaos & violence.
I’m more concerned with the drones dropping my package on the roof, the rose bushes, the mud, or puddles. “Hey, didn’t your drone see that big pile of dog shit it dropped my package in??”
@kritiper Fear not. The drone knows EXACTLY where to put it. And to further make sure of the correct location they are considering having the customer place a target at the desired location.
I have a commercial drone and it comes back to the same 1 ft square on its own! It swoops down, stops about 2 feet off the ground and then settles gently. It’s amazing (and a little creepy) to watch.
paint it blue and install a Tachikoma voice pack.
@LuckyGuy I’m glad the Cooper’s hawks that live in the area will know the difference between the drone and one of the neighbor’s pigeons. Or the bald eagles that live along the river near here. Or the cougar. Or coyotes. Or the neighbor’s retriever…
^Yeah. It’s going to be a learning experience. Lots of trial and error. I can think of SO many things that could/will go wrong.
@josie . I imagine that Amazon understands that they will lose a number of drones, and/or packages. They will learn, as they go, how to best thwart theft…
@kritiper It is interesting to watch the reaction of other birds to it. The drone makes an unnatural whine and the birds instinctively know it is not one of their kind. The rather large downdraft below the drone is another tip-off.
I imagine there will be some collisions, just as there are collisions with cars, but they will be few and far between.
@LuckyGuy The animals may know that it isn’t “one of their kind” but that doesn’t explain how they might feel about some “thing” invading their territory. But, whatever, shit will and will not happen, and not every day. Like dropping one’s smart phone in the toilet.
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