Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to America’s Streets

Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by jonny_eh on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:28PM (#20869574)

They're less likely to run over pedestrians.

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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:35PM (#20869657)

I'm not willing to bet that the occasional Amazon Prime Air drone won't malfunction and crush a pedestrian or five.

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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:28PM (#20870222)

> and crush a pedestrian or five.

I was going to make a sarcastic comment about my 1 sq ft amazon box carrying my pair of 2 AA batteries crushing someone, but I see that heavy lifter drones can carry up to 500 lbs. I have no idea why someone is next day ordering a large fridge from amazon, but a drone could both carry it and easily kill someone with it.

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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by mamon on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:09PM (#20871210)

>> a drone could both carry it and easily kill someone with it

Now imagine some terrorist hacking Amazon network and doing that deliberately. I can even imagine a not-so-US-friendly country, like Russia, or North Korea doing that.

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Re:Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery System Has Brought Chaos to Am... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:21PM (#20871301)

"Where were you when it rained fridges?"

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