It wouldn't take trucks off the road, it would just increase the capacity that we can transport.

It's a lot easier, safer and quieter to replace that traffic with electric vehicles or bicycles.

Even better is if the recipient is the one making the last mile trek on that bike. The logistics of delivering to a hub vs to a hub then also your individual door for that one box of post it notes are so much better for the environment.

I'm quietly hoping and waiting for online stores to take over empty store fronts for last mile delivery. Would love to be able to walk a block away, get my Amazon order, and return it there.

Now imagine that instead of returning something back to a central warehouse, Amazon could have the next customer pick it up or ship it nearby.

Hopefully boxes would not be needed for most of this, too. And any online store(s) could do this.

That would be great, and it's probably coming.

But I would also love if they could drone the package over to my roof if I wanted to.

Where I live, there are few things more dangerous than bicycling.

It's also something only the fitter half of the population can realistically do.

Even my F150 is quieter than these things though, and it can haul way more.

Tell that to the people with Raptors that use Lawrence Expressway as a public drag race track. Half the point of all these race cars is that they're loud as fuck.

Yeah I mean if you throw an aftermarket exhaust on them they can get pretty loud. Mine's just got the stock exhaust on it though. It's pretty tame.

I'd imagine there's some overlap of "people who race cars" and "people with aftermarket exhausts."

The "quieter" part depends on the drone altitude.

I am. You need fewer trucks than drones to move a given quantity of cargo.