Amazon Drone Deliveries

[JSngry]

Anybody else getting emails touting the current availability of a drone delivery option from Amazon on many items?

I worry about gunshots from some of my more...paranoid?....neighbors.

But I admit to finding it just a little odd to think about. Odd, but maybe cool too.

[Dan Gould]

Anyone who shoots at a drone is guilty of a Federal crime.  You'd be pretty stupid to do that though I imagine that it might be hard to know who did it if you don't also have eyes on the property from whence the shots come.

[JSngry]

I've got some neighbors who are pretty aggressive 2nd amendment types. Like REALLY aggressive.

It would be the randomness of any shots that would worry me.

Greetings from Texas.

[Dan Gould]

I just mentioned it because I was reading in the NYT about drones, they answered a series of reader questions about them and one was what about shooting them down.

I think it also said that your drone operator has to be in sight of the drone at all times, so how exactly is Amazon doing this in a cost effective manner, I wonder.  I mean is it that much easier to pull in a development and dispatch drones for the Last Mile?

[JSngry]

The Last Mile is not in sight in this neighborhood!!!

I don't see the efficiency either. I routinely see drivers park, get several deliveries in hand, and then sprint between houses before getting back on the truck and then moving on to do it again.

Brave new world, this is