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Re:Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries... by londons_explore on Saturday October 19, 2019 @03:46AM (#21297373)
Do you own a blender? How often do you use it? Do you not think that the economic and environmental cost of producing that blender is too large, considering how rarely you use it? It literally sits unused 99.99% of the time. Talk about inefficiency!

If a drone service could deliver a blender in 5 minutes when you had blending to do, and take it away again when you're done, the blender could get much better utilisation by being shared with the entire town, at a lower economic and environmental cost.

The same probably applies to nearly everything in your house.

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Re:Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries... by GordonS on Saturday October 19, 2019 @04:00AM (#21297399)
While you might have a point for some items, I think there are diminishing returns for most; I obviously don't have numbers, but it would seem to be highly inefficient to fly a blender around with a drone. Your 5-minute figure is also pretty unrealistic.

I could see how drone delivery might work for high value items, but they could just as easily be delivered in an EV van/truck carrying hundreds of items instead of just one. One genuinely useful case might be quickly flying blood/organs to a hospital.

There is also the human cost to consider; the noise of a single drone is very irritating, I can't imagine the horror of having our skies filled with the things.

I know of course you were generalising, but in my particular case, I actually do use my mini-blender quite often (for making curry pastes) :)

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Re:Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries... by heavyset_go on Saturday October 19, 2019 @03:54AM (#21297389)
"Sharing economy but with drones" is a weird choice of hills to die on in 2019.
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Re:Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries... by remir on Saturday October 19, 2019 @11:11AM (#21298875)
While cool in theory, I can't imagine the noise pollution and airspace traffic that would be generated by these drones.
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Re:Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries... by imihai1988 on Saturday October 19, 2019 @03:59AM (#21297395)
Good way of "disrupting" the blender/appliances market.
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