Only one item can be delivered at a time. It can’t weigh more than 5 pounds. It can’t be too big. It can’t be something breakable, since the drone drops it from 12 feet. The drones can’t fly when it is too hot or too windy or too rainy.

You need to be home to put out the landing target and to make sure that a porch pirate doesn’t make off with your item or that it doesn’t roll into the street (which happened once to Lord and Silverman). But your car can’t be in the driveway. Letting the drone land in the backyard would avoid some of these problems, but not if there are trees.

Amazon has also warned customers that drone delivery is unavailable during periods of high demand for drone delivery.

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        And maybe that craft could have wheels instead of rotors to mitigate the rain/wind problems… i think we might be on to something here!

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          Haha, now I am picturing a huge Chinook delivering the smallest package of essentially bullshit to my door.

          Yeah, I am totally behind that idea.

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        The problem is that the bigger and heavier the craft the higher it’s minimum drop height is going to be because it’s more dangerous and needs more clearance.

        Obviously it also becomes much more costly to run.

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        not even necessary a bigger capacity I mean it being just able to bring me like a bag of chips or something I forgot for dinner would be great

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          While people will undoubtedly take the piss, for a number of reasons, it’s less energy expenditure / lower footprint than you getting in your car/truck and going to the store and getting them yourself.

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            If you factor in all the logistics and systems necessary to run the drone operations and all associated functions, is it likely to be much of a saving?

            I could see something like this as useful for medical prescription delivery, but that comes with its own issues and dangers.

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            Would it be less energy expenditure than a delivery van making multiple stops on its way to deliver you your bag of chips?