Why hire couriers when you can send things with drones? The idea seemed great in certain scenarios, and Amazon started it long ago: in 2013. Then problems, delays, and more problems. That has meant that the Amazon Prime Air project has never had a truly massive deployment, but now the company wants to change that with the start of activity in a California location.
Messenger drones at Lockeford. This small town has a population of only 3,500 inhabitants, but precisely that size and its residential distribution make it a good candidate for these tests. Its inhabitants will be able to register for free to test the service, and the messenger drones will deposit the packages in the traditional backyards of these American homes.
avoiding obstacles. In Amazon stand out how these drones have an obstacle detection system — other drones, people, and even pets — that allows them to avoid them so they can operate safely. These drones are the latest expression of a project that has seen Amazon create “more than two dozen prototypes” before arriving at the current model, and they hope that this time everything will work perfectly.
They already tried it before. It is certainly not the first time that Amazon has tried to launch the service. In 2016 the tests began in the United Kingdom and that first shipment of popcorn and a Fire TV was celebrated, but that did not come to fruition and various incidents that, for example, showed that birds could be great enemies of these delivery drones.
This drone will self-destruct in five seconds.. That was coupled with the risk posed by many of how malfunctioning drones could come crashing down on our heads. Self-destruct systems and even systems that made the drones better understand our gestures were created, and in the last great leap of its design an important component was added: artificial intelligence to deliver packages autonomously.
a new attempt. The tests in the United Kingdom did not end well and there were a hundred dismissals in a project described as “dysfunctional”. Prime Air’s direction was compromised, but now the company has restarted those pilot tests with the hope that this time it will finally be the right one. We’ll see if they get it.
