Nah you see there are just too many risks involved with this, pretty much every kid on the street would try to nab that copter and keep it, also it's still slow, they need to take my idea and put artillery strike pizza into practice.
Domino's Unveils The Pizza Delivery Drone
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Fantastic, but how does it knock on the door?
Do you expect me to get up from A Fistfull of Dollars every five minutes to check if the pizza chopper is hovering around my front yard?
On the other hand, in cities you could deliver directly to apartments on upper floors through the window, so I guess that's something.
Do you expect me to get up from A Fistfull of Dollars every five minutes to check if the pizza chopper is hovering around my front yard?
On the other hand, in cities you could deliver directly to apartments on upper floors through the window, so I guess that's something.
1) I would imagine that it isn't THAT complicated to pilot what is basically a remote control helicopter (you know, the kind of thing you can buy at a department store). Don't be overly impressed by the title "trained" drone pilot, because H&R Block will use the same term for their "tax experts" who basically just sit through an hour long class. Unless you actually know how much effort it takes to learn, then "trained" is just a buzz word.Daaaah Whoosh said:
2) You don't need change when you pay with a card. Can't pay with a card? Then (most likely) you won't be eligible for a drone delivery.
3) I can certainly see potential for dangers (such as powerlines, as another poster said), but I would guess that learning to avoid those dangers is part of being a "trained" drone pilot, as opposed to some dink who just bought a remote control helicopter from a store.
The big advantage this drone has now is that the airspace is empty. If pizza-drones would become more viable commercially, the drone AI would have to include a lot of recognition algorithms to avoid collisions with fellow pizza-drones, and, from what I know, currently such dynamics aren't yet solved on speeds that drone uses.
I wonder what'll happen if someone tries to catch or shoot it down. Does it have self defence?
*BANG*
"Enemy detected. Possible shooter at 153 miles. Activating self-guided missile launchers. Protect pizza at all costs."
*Brings out miniguns off the side*
Someone make a movie out of this. "THE GREAT DOMINATION OF DOMINOS!"
*BANG*
"Enemy detected. Possible shooter at 153 miles. Activating self-guided missile launchers. Protect pizza at all costs."
*Brings out miniguns off the side*
Someone make a movie out of this. "THE GREAT DOMINATION OF DOMINOS!"