Looks like they want to park in centralized location, sort and load the drone pickup thing while it is flying around. Yeah, did not look like a great time saver to me.
From: Mathew Howard Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 9:38 AM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Drone problem? Done. That UPS drone really seems pretty dumb... so the drive pulls up in front of your house and sends his drone out to deliver the package while he sits there and eats donuts waiting for it to come back, or what? On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: I find it interesting that people are in a tizzy over jobs supposedly going to Mexico and China, yet we seem to spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how to eliminate jobs with things like drones. What’s so wrong about just hiring UPS guys to deliver packages? Or meter readers to read your meter. We want self-driving Uber cars and robot vacuums and drones to deliver our packages and self-checkouts at the store and bank. In the case of feral hogs, it seems there are hunters willing to go shoot them. But no, let’s poison them with rat poison so you’re scared to eat the bacon. I’m not sure why the fascination with drones for package delivery. Is a drone going to leave the package inside my front porch if I’m not home, or drop it on the sidewalk in the rain? Is the pizza delivery drone going to ring the doorbell and then hover in front of the door? Will it read the sign that says to go around to the back door? These are all jobs that are not going to be offshored to Mexico or China, unless that’s where they intend to hire the drone operators. I am all for robots that do things like welding and painting cars. Or cutting up meat in slaughterhouses. But once there are no UPS drivers or meter readers or grocery checkers or bank tellers, where are our kids going to find jobs? Oh, right, the coal mines and steel mills and iPhone factories are coming back. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 9:06 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Drone problem? Done. Guess I need to be more specific.. I want an Eagle with an American flag worn as a cape on the eagle. :) On 02/22/2017 08:30 AM, Jon Bruce wrote: Would this help? https://samy.pl/skyjack/ On 2/22/2017 9:25 AM, Dave wrote: I want one with the american flag as a cape. On 02/21/2017 08:38 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: What can Brown do for you? http://gizmodo.com/ups-showcases-new-delivery-drone-fucks-it-all-up-1792586968 From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Jason McKemie Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 8:15 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Drone problem? Done. This is pretty badass. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/21/terrorists-are-building-drones-france-is-destroying-them-with-eagles/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.e3dbf2132ea6 -- --
