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Re:Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual cus... by FrancoDiaz on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:25PM (#13179342)
From a physical standpoint, can a drone get to your front door?

I think targets are going to be inevitable. There's no way that a drone is going to be able to deliver to my front porch. It would be much easier to delivery to my deck in back.

The "not driving" part is the key for me personally. I don't really like risking life and limb to buy potato chips.

By chance, do you have vertigo?

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Re:Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual cus... by FroshKiller on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:30PM (#13179373)
No, I don't have vertigo, just a healthy aversion to the deadliest routine task most of us engage in. The longer I go without an accident, the more aware I am that for all I do to minimize my risk factors while driving, I have no control over my fellow motorists.

But yeah, a drone could get to my front door. I agree with you, though, that having some way to designate the delivery area might be necessary.

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Re:Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual cus... by frakkingcylons on Thursday December 15, 2016 @12:40AM (#13182702)
I feel the exact same way about being on roads. Where I live (Texas), 3531 people died in a traffic fatality last year (including someone I knew) [0].

[0]: http://ftp.dot.state.tx.us/pub/txdot-info/trf/crash_statisti...

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