> And anyway, driverless cars are happening.
By "happening" you mean "not used for any real purpose besides research or demonstration anywhere in the world" presumably.
We have cars navigating america autonomously as we speak. [1]
From a regulatory perspective, I think driver-less cars are making better progress than drones, because auto regulations are more relaxed than air.
[1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3006700/Driverless-c...
... Oh god I just linked the daily mail. Sorry I'm at work and picked the first link when I googled.
Re:Amazon Home Services
by narrowrail on Monday March 30, 2015 @10:43AM
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Just for comparison, I had phones (flip-phones, mind you) from Samsung, LG, and Motorola with NFC in 2006. We could use them at MCD's, 7-eleven, and a few other places. Fast-forward 9 years and there has been little uptake, except that there are phones actually available to people with NFC, and acceptance is more commonplace.
In general, people take much longer to adopt new technology than we would like to see.
edit: grammar
Drones could be useful for a lot of things but if the problem is delivering heavy packages cheaply to places with road access, they are not a rational choice.