Re:Amazon has made its first drone delivery to an actual cus...
by discreteevent on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:44PM
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> How does the drone identify apartment 5b from 4c?
Go out on the balcony with a phone app that prompts you to take pictures of the view in all directions. It sends these along with GPS coordinates to Amazon.
Drone flies to GPS coordinates and then descends until it's views 'match' those in the pictures you took.
Go out on the balcony with a phone app that prompts you to take pictures of the view in all directions. It sends these along with GPS coordinates to Amazon.
Drone flies to GPS coordinates and then descends until it's views 'match' those in the pictures you took.