Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive...
by jebarker on Monday July 17, 2023 @09:53PM
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Zipline's work in Rwanda is really inspiring. I love that they are doing real good in the world first and can leverage that to grow their commercial business.
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Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive...
by Shawnj2 on Monday July 17, 2023 @10:49PM
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Zip line also works because it’s for rural areas that don’t have a good road network, in the US driving would almost certainly be faster.
Re:Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delive...
by MostlyStable on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:19PM
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I imagine it depends on the size of delivery. Even with extremely good roads, zipline would probably be faster (I can't imagine that flying in a straight line is _ever_ slower than driving), just lower bandwidth. Single small package? Zipline is probably much faster. Many and/or large packages? Driving is almost certainly faster. Good roads don't change this basic fact, they just change the break even point.