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To use DelivAir, clients would start by requesting a delivery via a smartphone app. Possible scenarios could include a hiker in need of a first aid kit, a stranded cyclist needing a spare inner tube, or even a remotely-located person requiring life-saving equipment such as an EpiPen or defibrillator.
At a store, depot, or other location, the required item would then be loaded onto a drone, which would autonomously fly out to the client's smartphone GPS coordinates. Using the app, the client could in turn check the GPS coordinates of the drone in real time, to see how close it was getting to them.
Now when you break your Ming vase, a drone can deliver another one to you on the spot.
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(Score: 2) by tekk on Saturday October 07 2017, @05:42PM (3 children)
Tools to change an inner tube? All you need is some sort of spudger, the inner tube's already deflated if you need a new one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @08:49AM (1 child)
> some sort of spudger
You'll probably get a better tool if you ask for a "tire lever"...
With most combinations of bike tire and rim, the fit is loose enough that fingers can re-install the tire on the rim. I don't know anyone with strong enough fingers to get a flat tire _off_ the rim, that takes a lever.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @03:11PM
Eh, I've done it. Depends how deep the cross-section of the rim is, but on a couple different bikes I've had, once you get both beads loose, and drop them down into the middle of the rim on one side, you can just pop the bead over the rim at the opposite side. I've also had several where you needed a lever of some sort, but a fellow could pick deep rims on purpose to ensure toolless tire changes. (Being the sort of fellow who carries tools as a matter of course, I've not made it a point to.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @03:16PM
Not to mention, if you don't carry anything that will work (seriously?) and also can't find anything laying around that will work (double seriously?), you could always order the inner tube and a couple tire levers, delivered via drone.