alt Hacker NewsProbably half my immediate neighbors get an amazon delivery a day. The truck makes sometimes two or three stops throughout the day and is there for like 15-20 minutes running packages. The thought of that replaced with drone traffic is crazy. It would be like dozens of landings and overflights per hour. It is already bad enough when the realtors fly their drones overhead. I can't imagine the birds and bees aren't getting stressed out if it's managing to piss me off.
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What on earth are people buying that's delivered so frequently? I find the whole concept of frequent deliveries confusing.
Sounds like there’s an opportunity for bigger drones where you are. Lower frequency noise, fewer flights if you can drop more than one package per flight.
I just have a hard time seeing this becoming a major quality of life issue in the real world. It’s gonna be fine.
And birds and bees seem to be fine around waterfalls and airports, I think they’ll survive drone noise.
Same. Even outside the holiday season, there are 5+ package truck deliveries/day on my little street (12 houses). That's UPS, FedEx, USPS, usually multiple Amazon (which always surprises me), plus a couple unmarked vans. Plus couriers in cars. Plus food delivery, at least 2 a night. Almost all the Amazon vans are now electric Rivians or GMCs.
That's a LOT of drone traffic, given there's near zero ability to double up on a single stop as there is today.