Amazon want to deliver stuff to you using Drones

[Aulayna]

Amazon Prime Air

The future is now it seems. Within the next couple of years Amazon are hoping to deliver orders to some customers, using unmanned drones.

What do you think of this? How long before someone shoots a drone or tries to net it out of the sky to steal the merch? What would you like to have delivered by a drone?

[noxious.sunshine]

That's just weird and creepy to me. ...

[I Took the Red Pill]

This is pretty awesome if only for the future news feature about the hillbilly who shoots his new laptop out of the sky with a 12 gauge. And then blames Obama.

[Ayen]

Seems unnecessary.

But now that you mentioned it I want to have a dual-barreled shotgun delivered so I can catch it midair, hold it up and yell, "You see this? This is my boom, boom stick!"

[Sephex]

*Have Amazon deliver materials to build an EMP weapon
*Construct EMP weapon
*Use EMP weapon on drones
*Free crap 4 lyfe
*Never work again
*Become famous rapper
*More like Amazon Busta Rhymes

[Pike]

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

[Slothy]

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

If this turns out to be cheaper and faster then I concur.

[Spuuky]

What do you think of this? How long before someone shoots a drone or tries to net it out of the sky to steal the merch? What would you like to have delivered by a drone?

I don't know, how often do people shoot or net postmen to steal merchandise?

[Shoeberto]

Bezos said it's still years out, and it'd be fairly limited in range - you'd need to live really close to a distribution center, and account for weather conditions, package sizes (no kayaks, as he said), etc. - but it's a really cool idea and some very cool tech. At my old job, I was around people working on algorithms for smarter drone navigation as a hobby, and it's incredibly fascinating. I see this kind of automation being the future.

[Slothy]

What do you think of this? How long before someone shoots a drone or tries to net it out of the sky to steal the merch? What would you like to have delivered by a drone?

I don't know, how often do people shoot or net postmen to steal merchandise?

Shooting a postal worker is murder. Shooting a drone and taking it's cargo isn't. Bit of a difference in the level of criminal activity between the two.

[Mirage]

I would like to have a tomahawk missile replica delivered by a drone

[Spuuky]

Shooting a postal worker is murder. Shooting a drone and taking it's cargo isn't. Bit of a difference in the level of criminal activity between the two.

Guess it depends on the angle you're looking at it from. Ethically, sure, if you're considering ethics and decide "I'm a bad person, but not a TERRIBLE person," you could shoot down someone else's drone to steal someone else's property.

Both are things that are obviously, unequivocally both wrong and illegal, and both would (I assume) have significant enough criminal penalties such that if you were caught, it would be extremely bad for you. There's a big difference between murdering 1 person and murdering 1000 people, too. But they are both on the other side of the line of human behavior that normal people don't cross.

But if you insist, how often do people steal mail from random mailboxes (a far safer crime than shooting down a drone)? I've never had my mail stolen, but I suppose it could happen all the time.

[Hollycat]

I happen to live within 5 miles of a distribution center, so this might be pretty nice.

[Mirage]

If I ordered a parcel delivery drone from amazon, would they deliver the drone with a drone, or would they just send me a drone that wasn't carrying anything?

[Calliope]

I don't really care about having my post delivered my drone. My burrito, on the other hand...Where's my burrito? Where's my burrito?