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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 Runaway1956 on Sunday October 08 2017, @01:41PM
I never owned a tire tool until I was an adult. A screwdriver, or some random bit of scrap metal, is all a guy needs. Or, more precisely, TWO scraps of metal. I bought my first real "tire tool" to change tires on a two-ton truck, then I bought more appropriately sized tools for my motorcycle, and finally my cars. Of all of my vehicles that I've owned over the years, only that two-ton really required the purpose built tool.
Note, I'm not claiming that purpose built tools are completely unnecessary. Fact is, those tools make the job easier and faster, on any kind and size of wheel.