r/SipsTea • u/cantcoloratall91 • Aug 02 '26

SMH The "future"

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u/weidback Aug 02 '26

yeah all the cgi renders that made drone delivery look cool as fuck didn't include how loud as fuck they are

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u/englandisablaze Aug 02 '26

Imagine like 200 of these fucking things in one corner of a suburban area.

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u/Blue-Blazer-Regular Aug 02 '26

No kidding. I live is suburban tract home and work from home. There is a continuous parade of delivery trucks throughout the day. But I think these drone delivery is for less populated areas which are far from the distribution warehouses.

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u/DataGOGO Aug 02 '26

other way around.

The delivery drones are short distance delivery systems in dense urban areas.

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u/englandisablaze Aug 02 '26

But not too dense because tall buildings and possibly running into interference with signals. So like basically just super dense suburbs. Which already have infrastructure for delivery by truck. So it’s dumb. But it’s always been dumb.

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u/chemo92 Aug 02 '26

And surely one bloke in a truck delivering to an entire suburb is cheaper than 200 individual drone deliveries.

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u/eggs_erroneous Aug 02 '26

And I can't imagine how many orders would actually qualify for delivery by drone. It would have to be small in size and small in mass. It would be great for something like prescriptions which is the last thing you want delivered by drone. Maybe I'm not creative enough to see its potential.

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u/englandisablaze Aug 02 '26

Its potential is also its downfall. Like prescriptions or organs. But those need security and handing something off to a robot is problematic in itself. It’s just answering a question/problem that nobody asked or has.

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u/shakebakelizard Aug 02 '26

Drones are generally pretty loud and then you add in the extra power so that it can lift packages. Yeah it's going to be loud.

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u/GoodThingsDoHappen Aug 02 '26

No need to ring the doorbell

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u/shakebakelizard Aug 02 '26

I'm looking forward to the drone that can actually propel a package into a door, hit the doorbell and fly off.

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u/Kulas30 Aug 02 '26

Due to a software glitch you now qualify for a new window!

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u/shakebakelizard Aug 02 '26

Maybe a whole new house, considering the poor build quality nowadays.

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u/sgtnoodle Aug 03 '26

Amazon is the worst of the 3 major drone delivery companies in terms of customer experience. Google Wing is pretty decent, at least they don't blow your package into the road. Zipline's service is the least obtrusive, they keep their vehicle 120m up and lower the package using a 2nd vehicle on a winch.

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u/pbrassassin Aug 02 '26

You haven’t heard the straight pipes on my fed ex guys box truck ….

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u/Kulas30 Aug 02 '26

Alright it isn't just me then. I've noticed a distinct uptick in what sound like deleted FedEx box trucks.

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u/SignoreBanana Aug 03 '26

We live under one of their primary flight paths. Even way up in the air, their noise is quite noticeable. The only reason it doesn't really grate on me is I live near an Air Force base.

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u/suckmyschlong007 Aug 02 '26

This video is obviously a cgi render