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Eugene

(66,945 posts) Wed Dec 14, 2016, 05:42 PM Dec 2016

Amazon makes first drone delivery

Source: BBC

Amazon makes first drone delivery

14 December 2016 Technology

Retail giant Amazon has made its first delivery using a drone, in the UK.

The package arrived safely at its destination in Cambridge, 13 minutes after being ordered.

A video showing the process details how the order was completed using an electrically powered drone flying at up to 400ft (122m).

One sceptic questioned how much of a "game changer" the limited trial of the service would be.

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Amazon makes first drone delivery (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2016 OP

Americans will shoot them down metroins Dec 2016 #1

Amazon PR scores a hit right in the Christmas season. n/t PoliticAverse Dec 2016 #2

Who wants this? Seriously? LisaM Dec 2016 #3

metroins

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1. Americans will shoot them down

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 14, 2016, 05:53 PM

Dec 2016

And steal the packages.

Big nets, guns, etc.

I don't mind autonomous stuff at all but it's going to be rockier than people think.

Remember, idiots elected Trump.

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