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Re:Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual cus... by jtolmar on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:38PM (#13179440)
My preferred solution for a variety of these is that you buy a transmitter from Amazon, and the drone tries to home in on it once it gets to your address. The ideal transmitter would be wide and flat, so the drone can just drop packages on it, and so any place you could fit it also has a reasonable chance of having enough clearance. You could incentivize buying them using the same mechanics as Amazon's dash buttons.

Doesn't help with complex patio furniture though, and ceilings are a genuinely hard problem. (Most apartments in Seattle are like that too.)

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Re:Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual cus... by sqeaky on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @04:46PM (#13179955)
The thing could even fold up for easy storage. If it could unfold to be a square a meter in size (or a bit larger) then Amazon could get even to the point where they land or hover just above.

It could have tiny legs and the actual target area could be a foot above the ground and it could be a net (so the wind the drone makes blows through harmlessly). Then it can catch a package dropped from a few feet.

Amazon, you have my written permission to use this idea and sell me this product.

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