Annoyingness is not the same thing as volume. Nails on a chalkboard is also quieter than a car, or an orchestra playing Mahler's Fifth.

This 100% ! I live not far from an airport (airplanes are like very big drones is you will :-)). And although the number of decibels is probably inferior to the one of the cars passing by my street, I can assure you it's a hell of a lot more annoying. First there are much more infra bass, second it lasts much longer than a car passing by, third, they like to fly at 5 or 6 in the morning where most of the car drivers sleep (side note: according to city's rule, they can't fly at that time but they just pay the fine to do so...)

> third, they like to fly at 5 or 6 in the morning where most of the car drivers sleep (side note: according to city's rule, they can't fly at that time but they just pay the fine to do so...)

"If a fine costs less than the crime pays, then it's not a penalty, it's a cost of doing business"

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Not quieter than electric cars/bikes.

Pizza delivery / grocery motorbikes used to annoy the hell out of us. But the switch to electric mopeds has been a blessing.

Credit to Getir in London for standardising electric bikes across their fleet (at least where we are).

I think even ebikes would cause now pollution than this drone - microplastics degrading off the rubber wheels and other components, as well as fine brake dust from pads.

I don't know why you're being downvoted. You have a good point. I hate these vague accusations of "that's environmentally unsound" which get bandied around, without any evidence at all and in the full knowledge that they're as impossible to refute as they would be to prove, just because it's an unfalsifiable way of attacking something you dislike. No one ever calls them out on it either.

I was specifically talking about noise-pollution.

My ear-devices-pro+ record decent data and I submit that data as verifiable evidence in this matter.

> But the switch to electric mopeds has been a blessing

In terms of noise pollution, yes. But it has meant some less spatially aware delivery riders flying silently around corners on pavements which is an annoying problem.

Makes for some good youtube videos though (sorry).

>drones are quieter than cars

Children are quieter than cars and yet I hear them from the 3rd floor because sound travels in a direct line with nothing obstructing it. You don't hear cars 3 blocks away because of all the buildings between you and the cars. You'll hear a drone 3 blocks away because the air doesn't block sound as much.

> drones are quieter than cars

People get coffee delivered by car? If that is so it is rather depressing.

Yup, a friend of mine gets his morning coffee delivered every morning. I felt like Marie Antoinette when I stayed at his house and he ordered me one ('you have a coffee machine right here! are you mad?').

That's insanity to me. How much are they paying?!

I am not the OP, but I just checked what it would be for me. This morning I got two medium coffee's (Dunkin) which came out to about $5. The same order on DoorDash is $12, $15 if you included a $3 tip.