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7-Eleven Just Used a Drone To Deliver Slurpees and a Chicken Sandwich (roboticstrends.com)
An anonymous Slashdot reader write:
A drone has autonomously delivered Slurpees, a chicken sandwich, doughnuts, hot coffee and candy from a Reno, Nevada 7-Eleven to a nearby home. The delivery was made "in a matter of minutes" to two busy working parents near their store in Reno, Nevada, and the drone hovered in place and gently lowered each package to the ground in the family's backyard.
"To find customers willing to have their order handled by a flying robot, the companies surveyed households within a one-mile radius of the store from which they planned to deliver," reports Tech Crunch. 7-Eleven partnered with drone-delivery company Flirtey, which has also used its drones to perform a ship-to-shore delivery of medical supplies . They're calling this flight the first FAA-approved drone delivery to a home and a historic milestone in commercial deliveries, and both companies plan to continue working together in the future to perform more testing on drone deliveries.
"To find customers willing to have their order handled by a flying robot, the companies surveyed households within a one-mile radius of the store from which they planned to deliver," reports Tech Crunch. 7-Eleven partnered with drone-delivery company Flirtey, which has also used its drones to perform a ship-to-shore delivery of medical supplies . They're calling this flight the first FAA-approved drone delivery to a home and a historic milestone in commercial deliveries, and both companies plan to continue working together in the future to perform more testing on drone deliveries.
You think you can just go around government controls, unions, regulations with your free market innovations?
7-11 is big.
I'm sure they'll make the proper bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions to sway the minds of our "elected representatives".
Well, I wouldn't say humans had a good run, but we made our share of noise and hoopla. Glad we're gonna be extinct though, a species that subsists on celebrity gossip and other modern-day idiocies isn't really one that is worth much in the end.
It's funny because the question is preposterous. If you allowed your dog to run loose in your front yard, and asked a pizza delivery guy to leave food on your front porch where the dog could get to it, would you be questioning the viability of this fancy new "people delivery pizza using cars" technology? No? I see.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.