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According to The Guardian, Amazon has made real drone deliveries to real customers in Cambridge, UK. At present the "Prime Air" service is only available to two Amazon Prime customers with large gardens who happen to live close to Amazon's UK depot, but they hope to extend the service to dozens more in the coming months.
Apparently the drone was fully autonomous, with no human operator, and the time from placing an order to delivery was just 13 minutes. A video of the delivery can be found in the linked article.
Is this the future?
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(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Thursday December 15 2016, @06:22PM
Not a problem actually. I don't mind it. If the rich want to pay a bit more to have amazon stuff delivered by their very own personal drone, go for it. They already have a lot of other privileges that peons such as myself can only dream of. No point being bitter and covetous about it.
Just saying it is unlikely to be "the future", implying a replacement wholesale of the current infrastructure. Maybe for the select few, sure I can see it, but it will be a minority thing in the whole system.
For me, having amazon stuff arrive at my office, handled by the mailroom and left on my desk is convenient enough. Don't even bother with amazon prime because of it.