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7-Eleven Just Used a Drone To Deliver Slurpees and a Chicken Sandwich (roboticstrends.com)
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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.
I guess they had to find some way of cutting costs now that they can no longer underpay staff and take advantage of desperate foreign workers.
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".
And some still wonder why the states runs like a 3rd world country. This is why.
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with this article, preceded slightly by the one headlined "Laser-Armed Martian Robot Now Vaporizing Targets of Its Own Free Will"
OMG, it's about 100 fucking degrees right now, I so need a Slurpee right now... Damn you EditorDavid and your stupid click bait posts!!!
I usually like the warmth and can tolerare the heat but I'm feeling super bitchy right now, cause it's so god damn hot. Maybe it's manapause. Oh well. Also, no thanks for the chicken sandwich, don't want that.
Tell that to all the Walmarts in Texas that can't sell booze.
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.
You think you can just go around government controls, unions, regulations with your free market innovations?
You think you can just fly a heavy object through other people's property without certain preparations and considerations of your actions?
The downside is that you have to be willing to consume food from 7-11, which is maybe one notch above bowling alley food.
Tell that to all the Walmarts in Texas that can't sell booze.
That's because of already-established "interests" that have "pre-bribed" our "elected representatives" in order to keep their monopoly.
in the rest of the world convenience stores have regular food. Given the large network of the things you might see better food options as they get more into delivery. Kinda like what Radio Shack tried to do but actually workable since food is perishable.
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Boo on you! Can't you relax for even a minute?
Back on topic:
Lowering the chicken sandwich to the ground? Nice way to attract all the neighborhood cats. You'd better be faster than they are to pick it up.
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If drone delivery becomes common, is there going to be a problem with drones falling from the sky and hitting people on the head? I don't know the answer to that.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Because that's apparently going to be viable soon, yay.
a species that subsists on celebrity gossip and other modern-day idiocies isn't really one that is worth much in the end.
What should a species 'subsist' on? You know, just wondering
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Does this mean 7-11 just made the first ever drone delivery of a commercial sale?
If so Way To Go 7-11 !!!!
I would have put money on Amazon being the first.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the drone tries to make a delivery at a house that has a dog. Most dogs I've had would just eat the chicken sandwich. But I've known a few that would have it out with the drone.
Currently you can carjack delivery vans in front of your house if you just want "free shit" and have no moral virtues. What's holding you back?
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Birds regulate their use of airspace quite well. There are rarely any crashes, excepting human error. Aerobots should emulate birds rather than try for some sort of central control - imperfect attempts at control only produce chaos.
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and they hide under the system of franchises to shift the blame.
Carjacking is a risky crime that requires making physical threats to actual people face to face and in some cases encountering serious resistance. Hardly the same level of criminality is required to shoot or otherwise damage a drone, forcing it to the ground.
The article has been up for over 1.5 hours with 40 posts and no one has noticed that the first link isn't actually a link.
How do I submit an application for a Slashdot editor position? I'd love to do nothing all day and get paid for it.
Tell that to all the Walmarts in Texas that can't sell booze.
That's because of already-established "interests" that have "pre-bribed" our "elected representatives" in order to keep their monopoly.
They sell booze at the Walmart near my home in south Texas. HUGE isle full of beer/wine/coolers/whatnot. Since I don't drink I don't know if they sell hard alcohol and I'm not sure if that is what you mean, But they do sell "booze" down here in Walmart.
Carjacking is a risky crime that requires making physical threats to actual people face to face
Then wait till after they make their delivery, and just steal the stuff from your neighbor's front porch or mailbox. What's stopping you? There are plenty of human endeavors that rely on people being basically honest, and for the most part, they work. If your mail isn't stolen, they why would drone deliveries be stolen?
Bird strikes are actually one of the more common reasons for damage to aircraft in flight. They're not very rare, and they're not due to human error.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Birds have kamikazed billions of windows and thousands of planes.
In this case, I think I would classify getting in an aircraft and flying past birds far, far more quickly than anything else they have to dodge in the sky as the "human error" which causes birds to hit aircraft. So... let's just not fly drones near actual aircraft. Birds not hitting each other (hunting aside) works well enough, why not drones not hitting each other?
Only 100 F, you panty waist. It was 105 F here by 0930 and will likely reach 115 F today. That said by the time they got the slurpee to me it would be warm sugar water :( On days like this I question the wisdom of accepting a contract in Yuma AZ, though the AC indoors works like a champ.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Too busy first-posting to read the summary, eh? It says FAA-approved right there. Unless by "go around" you meant "comply with the law in order to prevent fatal mid-air collisions"?
Tell that to all the Walmarts in Texas that can't sell booze.
That's due to religious oppression, not government. My county finally went wet after a long battle, spanning multiple voting cycles, with the religious fucks around here. You know what? The devil didn't set up camp on the County Courthouse like you'd though would happen according the them. As a matter of fact, the majority of crime is still committed by meth heads and there has been little to no change in alcohol related incidents. Still can't buy alcohol on Sundays though.. Fucking religious nuts pushing their beliefs on everyone else, then crying oppression when we try to do demand our right to do something they don't approve of.
Sorry 'bout that... /rant
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Bread and Circus is really just basic income with a Netflix subscription thrown in (or what passed for Netflix in their day. Really: read some history).
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Ideally things functional, insight-provoking, empathy-evoking, or maybe, just maybe, things constructive.
Sounds like a TED talk is your preferred form of entertainment.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Nothing worse than a sold out politician who won't stay bought. Texas politicians have integrity.
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It's probably like most other states with an ABC. South Carolina does the same thing. Wine, malt liquor, beer? All available wherever you roam. Want some Jameson, Jack, Svedka, and enough Captain to drown the Titanic, gotta go to an ABC-approved store. Totally different from where I grew up, where you could get whiskey, beer, steak, potatoes, and pampers all within 200 feet of one another in the same store.
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A drone delivering 7-11 food must be considered a biowarfare war crime under the Geneva Convention.
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The postal system was established by the Constitution and interfering with the delivery of the mail is a federal offense with penalties of up to 5 years in federal prison and $250,000 in fines. UPS, FedEx, Amazon and other companies won't enjoy that level of protection.
You can re-bribe the pre-bribed and swing them around to your point of view. Sometimes you need to hold a public referendum, which is sort of the ultimate bribe where you have to go out with advertising and convince the public to vote for what you want.
This service does not exist as a commercial service that a customer can use. Total PR stunt by the local over-eager PR agency who seems to think that Reno is the next Silicon Valley (hilarious laughter).
No 7 Eleven sandwiches contain any chicken! It's some kind of almost chicken-like substance. Best feed it to your dog first to see if it's OK.
Can't argue that point, although when the temp exceeds 115 F it is horrific in any case. The humidity rarely exceeds 30% here thankfully. We have a pool cooler here that gets more use than the pool heater ever does.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
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Amazon must be pissed!
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Drone deliveries from 7-11? Ugh. That's a bit like learning you're finally going to lose your virginity, and then finding out it's going to be with Uncle Bob.
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(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Does it still say, "Come again.."?
Okay, but they don't get to out-vote the people who actually live in the dry county.
(Please stop moding this guy down, even though an AC, he is right)
There were rumors that at least one of the license owners from the closest wet county, who now owns one of the three licenses (one license holder can own multiple businesses but the number of licenses is determined by population) in the county, was helping, but it was well know and publicized that the local churches were the major force behind it.
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(Please stop moding this guy down, even though an AC, he is right)
Nobody modded the AC down. Click on the Score:0 and you'll see there's no moderation. AC's start at 0 by default, unlike users with good karma, who might start at 1 or 2.
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Texas, like Mississippi, still has "dry counties". In Mississippi, anything beyond beer has to be sold in a licensed facility that does not allow anyone below 21 years old to enter. I can't remember what county Nagodoches, Texas, is in but when I was there on a business trip a few years ago; you had to "purchase a membership" in a private club to be able to buy an alcoholic beverage.
It isn't worth it for Walmart or 7-11 to try and change local laws and would aggravate the local church ladies to no end if they tried.
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Rant away.
It goes back to prohibition. When prohibition was repealed; many states made liquor sales "local option". In other words, the local people decide if they want liquor sales in their jurisdiction.
Personally, I think adults should be expected to behave in an adult manner. On the flip side, I'm a huge believer in local government instead of draconian controls from massive bureaucracy. I'm willing to drive to the next county over for a bottle of rum if I like and politic for legalizing in my county when the issue comes up.
Just a democratic opinionated old fart....
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Churches....
Reminds me of an old joke... The Southern Baptist Convention is totally against pre-marital sex because it could lead to drinking, card playing, and (heaven forbid) dancing.
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