alt Hacker NewsGround effect vehicles could be the thing that's needed to make drone based delivery a reasonable thing to do, especially around lakes. It's one of life's perennial disappointments that such things only get done in military terms and under the ludicrous notion they are rescue vessels.
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nradov • last Tuesday at 2:30 PM
That's never going to happen. Only a tiny fraction of the population live directly on lakeshores, and basically no warehouses. If drone based delivery is going to work then they'll have to fly out of ground effect to avoid structures and trees.
The main advantage of ground effect vehicles is lower fuel consumption over long distances. That's not a priority for the short range battery powered drones used by delivery services.
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I think drone based delivery is a solved problem by now, thanks to the very rapid developments in the last 2 years ?
Some of the drones are now even fiber optic guided and thus resistant to jamming by the competition!