Amazon's Delivery Drones Will Be Able To Track Your Location

stowie writes: According to the filing with the USPTO, the e-commerce giant's delivery drones will be able to communicate with each other, find the best flight path available, and update the delivery location as a customer changes location. Package delivery locations will be updated as customers move around, so a package can come to you at work or home, depending on where you are when your shipment is ready — including pulling location data from a smartphone. There will also be relay locations, allowing drones to drop off packages for further transport, or to recharge or swap batteries. Amazon even supplies a mockup of what its delivery drone could look like, including eight propellers, two removable power modules and much more.

Comments

Cutting their losses

[Nonesuch]

How will Amazon handle the theft problem? Why just steal a package of unknown value when you can stuff the drone into a steel box and get a pile of expensive parts along with whatever bonus you find in the package being delivered.

Will Amazon be forced to redline neighborhoods that have a high attrition rate?

Re:Ok, I'll stick my neck on the chopping block

[YrWrstNtmr]

Track my location? Pretty sure my house doesn't actually move around much.

Downsides? Sure, Amazon...I'll let you track my every move, all day every day.
Not.

Re:I agree

[viperidaenz]

What if you're in a car, constantly moving playing a game of "lead the drone on a wild goose chase" for fun?

It would be pretty funny if there was a swarm of these following cars on the motorway or around and around a city block or something.

Re:Ok, I'll stick my neck on the chopping block

[pushing-robot]

I think it's going to be great, and the "sky is falling" predictions about all the downsides to this seem like nonsense to me

To be fair, that's not what I'm worried about falling.