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Delivair Would Deliver to People, Not Just Addresses

posted by martyb on Saturday October 07 2017, @03:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the catch-me-if-you-can dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @08:31PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @08:31PM (#578646)

    You claiming a first-aid kit designed for hiking is not something you would carry on a hike?

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Saturday October 07 2017, @09:28PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 07 2017, @09:28PM (#578657) Journal

    You claiming a first-aid kit designed for hiking is not something you would carry on a hike?

    Depends where you hike.

    More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost." What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @10:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 07 2017, @10:12PM (#578671)

    You'd be covered for the burn, but not necessarily a sprain or broken leg. Both of which you might be able to leave with if you've h got appropriate gear.And there's plenty of other things that need supplies. Carrying a huge first aid kit just in case isn't realistic in most places that are too rough to get a chopper or atv in.

    And sometimes the supplies get lost. If the reason you need the help is that you slipped going over a snow field that first aid kit may no longer be accessible.