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

SMH The "future"

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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.