Amazon Reveals "Prime Air", Their Plans For 30-minute Deliveries By Drone

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 2, 2013 @01:06AM from the amazon-air dept.

Z80xxc! writes "Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed during a CBS 60 Minutes interview that the company is working on a service called 'Prime Air' to deliver packages by autonomous octocopter drones within 30 minutes of hitting the 'buy' button. The plan still requires more testing and FAA approval, but Bezos predicts it'll be available to the public in the next 4-5 years. With a lot of backlash against drones, and some towns even offering bounties to shoot them down, will this technology ever take off, or is this just another one of Amazon's eccentric CEO's fantastical flight ideas?"

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Re:Stupid media bait by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-02 02:18 · Score: -1, Troll

Congratulations on refuting one of his four reasons that it's stupid and impractical. The other three still make this idea unfeasible for any large-scale operation.
But good job on that one. Because that was totally the lynchpin.