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posted by martyb on Friday November 18 2016, @03:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the supersized-bees dept.

You can call it pie in the sky, but pizza delivery is now a real thing -- at least in the Land Down Under.

Domino's Pizza Enterprises said Wednesday it had completed what it called the world's first delivery of a pizza to a customer in New Zealand. Under the watch of a team of drone experts, the unmanned aerial vehicle used GPS navigation to autonomously deliver Peri-Peri Chicken and Chicken and Cranberry pizzas to a backyard in Whangaparaoa, about 20 miles north of Auckland.

Drones have grown in popularity among big retailers such as Amazon and Walmart, which are continually looking for new ways to get a jump on the competition and attract customers. The small, commercial aerial drones could avoid the delays of terrestrial deliveries by flying above traffic and avoiding circuitous roadways.

Manna from heaven?


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 18 2016, @03:49AM

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday November 18 2016, @03:49AM (#428630) Journal

    I'm visualising Aussies standing outside the local Dominoes, bringing down the drones with boomerangs for free food!

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @04:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @04:09AM (#428641)

    New Zealand is not Australia.

    Handy guide:

    New Zealand : Land of the Long White Cloud
    Australia : The Land Down Under
    Canada : The Great White North
    America : Eagle Land

    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Bogsnoticus on Friday November 18 2016, @06:08AM

      by Bogsnoticus (3982) on Friday November 18 2016, @06:08AM (#428708)

      Don't worry, the summary was written by a member of a country whose schooling system is so pathetic, their government has to go to war every ten years or so to teach their population world geography.

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      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday November 18 2016, @10:00AM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday November 18 2016, @10:00AM (#428765) Journal

        Gaark was firing from the hip, but, then, so were you. His slip had nothing to do with the summary or America.

        For what it's worth, I've been to Australia and New Zealand (South Island and North Island) and don't have anything bad to say about either place. The people are lovely and the land is beautiful. They are not more sophisticated, well travelled, or better educated than Americans or Canadians, though. If a person had to dig deep to find some kind of criticism it could be said that the Aussies could treat the Aborigines better than they do and Kiwis the Maoris, and that the Aussies are really obnoxious tourists in Southeast Asia; but that would open a whole can of worms because I can't think of anybody off the top of my head who does better with that kind of thing, and certainly not Americans or Canadians.

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    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday November 18 2016, @05:53PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Friday November 18 2016, @05:53PM (#428966) Journal

      Yeah, sorry: the first line says "Land down under" and i fixated.

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  • (Score: 1) by GreatOutdoors on Friday November 18 2016, @05:48AM

    by GreatOutdoors (6408) on Friday November 18 2016, @05:48AM (#428691)

    As soon as drone delivery is legal in the USA, you will see a spike in the sales of shotguns and likely new varieties of "drone killer" shells that are specifically tasked with taking out drones. It will be interesting watching the legal battles unfold.

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