For those of a criminal mind — or the snooping government (but I repeat myself) — intercepting those carrier drones is a good way to steal, both packages and information.
(Carrier pigeons were safer for info.)
naturegirlDecember 6, 2013 1:28 pm
Was just reading the discussion of this over on Tam’s Porch. Plus caught bits and pieces of discussions elsewhere about the whole idea. One thing I never see mentioned, assuming this even can feasibly work and actually happens, is the less people job aspect of it. One more thing where a machine replaces people. And I think about an old neighbor who never got to see many people other than the UPS man showing up at her door.
I think it’s creepy anyway. And I know it will also have all kinds of information that will be shared with whatever agency wants to know everything about us. “Mr. SoinSo just ordered this, and it went there, and here’s a video of the house/person/etc etc when it was delivered. And while we were there, Drone #372839282 reported neighbor has *whatever* in the backyard.” – there’s enough of that going on already no need to add another layer.
Not to mention how easy it would be to just pick up the drone along with the package, in some of the bad parts of town. Not to mention how annoying it will be to be walking down the street and collide with one of these newest annoyances. But I really can’t see it being useful since the weight limitations will come into play.
Great pr trick, gotta hand it to them for scoring the free pr just in time for the holidays.
jedDecember 6, 2013 3:34 pm
In addition to other problems, Slate seems to think that birds will attack the drones.
I’m in the “pr generation” camp, i.e., it’s just a story to get them in the media, even more than they already are.
For those of a criminal mind — or the snooping government (but I repeat myself) — intercepting those carrier drones is a good way to steal, both packages and information.
(Carrier pigeons were safer for info.)
Was just reading the discussion of this over on Tam’s Porch. Plus caught bits and pieces of discussions elsewhere about the whole idea. One thing I never see mentioned, assuming this even can feasibly work and actually happens, is the less people job aspect of it. One more thing where a machine replaces people. And I think about an old neighbor who never got to see many people other than the UPS man showing up at her door.
I think it’s creepy anyway. And I know it will also have all kinds of information that will be shared with whatever agency wants to know everything about us. “Mr. SoinSo just ordered this, and it went there, and here’s a video of the house/person/etc etc when it was delivered. And while we were there, Drone #372839282 reported neighbor has *whatever* in the backyard.” – there’s enough of that going on already no need to add another layer.
Not to mention how easy it would be to just pick up the drone along with the package, in some of the bad parts of town. Not to mention how annoying it will be to be walking down the street and collide with one of these newest annoyances. But I really can’t see it being useful since the weight limitations will come into play.
Great pr trick, gotta hand it to them for scoring the free pr just in time for the holidays.
In addition to other problems, Slate seems to think that birds will attack the drones.
I’m in the “pr generation” camp, i.e., it’s just a story to get them in the media, even more than they already are.
I really liked the Ornithological Waterstones Landing Service parody. Now if you could actually train owls to deliver packages, that’d be way cooler than a drone.