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[Rick Welykochy]

stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> 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.

Interesting idea. Until a drone interferes with road traffic and
causes an accident due to flight failure. How about a few firsts:

(*) the first road accident caused by a drone
(*) the first personal injury
(*) the first death
(*) the first use of a drone to take down another drone
(*) the first mid-air collision between two drones
(*) the first mid-air collision between drone and non-drone
(*) the first use of a drone for carting around illicit goods, i.e. contraband
(*) the first use of a drone for espionage ... oops, already happening
(*) the first use of a drone to commit a crime ... oops, already happening
(*) the first use of a drone to breach an international border ... oops,
     already happening

I'm sure Linkers can think of many more drone firsts.

Another thing comes to mind. Licencing. These flying bots will need some
sort of unique identifier in order to locate a perpetrator ... erm, owner.


cheers
rickw



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