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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 digitalaudiorock on Thursday December 15 2016, @07:42PM
How about if instead they try to...you know...not suck. They seem to think they can become the CostCo members only of the Internet, pushing that prime BS. The last order I placed with them (a new router) clearly had the shipping intentionally delayed because I'm not a prime member. Then it was delivered with their fucking AMZL service...translated...the Uber of shipping...Joe Blow making money in his spare time delivering your package. It arrived on my front porch in the factory shrink wrap and NO other box of packing. Jeff can stick his fucking drones up his ass, preferably while they're running.