Amazon To Use Octocopter Delivery! (60 Minutes)

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groveChuck

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazons-jeff-bezos-looks-to-the-future/

60 Minutes profiled Jeff Bezos and Amazon Sunday night, where we learn:
  • Amazon will get 300 orders per second on Cyber Monday.
  • They are working on developing automated octocopter delivery in urban centers within 10 miles of distribution centers.
  • They have 96 distribution centers worldwide, the one filmed in is 1.2 million square feet, the size of more than 20 football fields.
  • The centers' shelving system seems to defy logic (like a book on Buddhism and Zen next to Mrs. Potato Head), yet is super-efficient. They:
"have computers and algorithmic work that tells people the areas of the building that have the most space to put product in that’s coming in at that time."
  • Bezos shaved his head and has a very strange laugh (like he's taking over the world?)...

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And 60 Minutes used a ring light for the handheld walk & talk interviews (no C300 though).

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/amazons-jeff-bezos-looks-to-the-future/
 
At some point ridiculously far in the future I'm going to start using sharks with freaking lasers on their heads to display my videos. Can everyone in the world now start talking about it all week?
 
As cool as it is, I can see people trying to shoot those things down or the dog attacking it hehe. I used to fly model RC helicopters and the neighbors dog jumped up 8ft and grabbed the helicopter slamming it to the ground:-(
 
Freebee movie concept: Carlos Santiago head of Guantorlega drug cartel also sees story and is inspired to use already setup online ordering system and because of story now plans having hordes of cheap drones fly micro shipments across multiple borders literally under the radar with lots of dummy packages to throw off any surveilance attempts.
Working title: Locust Express
 
A cool idea that will never work. Too many things could go wrong, thieves as mentioned, weather, injury to people on the ground. What I do as as a more likely possibility in the future is a fleet of secure, self driven vehicles. It shows up at your door. You swipe your credit card and it deposits your package.
 
I don't see this happening in my lifetime... there's just too much on the FAA side...and actually, anyone flying these and shooting video for commercial use now are doing so illegally.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechcon...-For-Commercial-Drones-Expect-To-Come-By-2015

http://news.yahoo.com/drone-journalism-faa-restrictions-164543522.html

2015 will probably bring some sort of change, but I doubt the goverment (and most people) are going to want a sky filled with drones.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/07/congress-welcomes-the-drones/


Don't we have enough cameras watching our every move now? Imaging being able to put a tracking device on a car (we can do that now) and having a drone follow that vehicles every move from 200-400 feet, whoever was being followed would never be the wiser....scary stuff. Forget about 1984 and Big Brother... this is the beginning of SkyNet! :shocked:

 
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craigbowman said:
Freebee movie concept: Carlos Santiago head of Guantorlega drug cartel also sees story and is inspired to use already setup online ordering system and because of story now plans having hordes of cheap drones fly micro shipments across multiple borders literally under the radar with lots of dummy packages to throw off any surveilance attempts.
Working title: Locust Express
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The use of various 'light' flying craft has been in such use for some time. Here's a recent news brief:

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/local/11262013_6.xml

There have been many other similar events, and of course one never knows how many have succeeded in being picked up by the intended 'recipient'...

In the case of the 'small' drones, their use would be limited to perhaps a mile of the border, and pretty much line of sight. And probably why bigger drones aren't used much is the cost/benefit... cheaper to have a human flying the light craft, and if 20-50 percent are captured... call it 'operating loss'.
 
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