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Jim writes,

> I expect people will get used to them and think they are a normal
> part of the urban environment.. They could be assisted during critical
> phases of their flight by operators who may be geographically distant. 
> Most likely such a service would start off doing standard runs between
> a set of points.  


Seems to me, delivery drones will be quite popular indeed going forward.

Also seem to me that it would be smart to simply make them fly X metres
above the existing roads. The roads are already quite accurately mapped.

With GPS and existing navigation maps, they could track to the left and
right of road centres, and, along existing delivery transport corridors.  

With Google street view the programmers could determine drop-off points
and then they might basically let it do its own thing, until it arrived.

Cheers,
Stephen

> On 3 December 2013 13:19, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at internode.on.net> wrote:
>
> > That's where the system problems come in. Cars are part of a cultural
> > system. Millions of them travel roads every day. There are accidents.
> > But people know how to behave in that cultural system, pretty much.
> >
> > UAVs are anomalies in that system. We have wires and poles and signs
> > and plants and all sorts of physical objects in spaces where cars
> > don't go. I guess you could put in some sort of avoidance sensor like
> > aerial rhumbas??? But what is the distinction between a porch roof
> > and the door step? Where is the package going to end up? What is the
> > rule set? The non-road spatial objects are practically infinite.
> >
> > Jan
> >
> >
> >
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