Over the past few years drones have slowly begun to eke out deliveries of particular items to particular places. A decade ago you might have guessed drone deliveries would be ubiquitous by 2022. The New York Times asks Where Are the Delivery Drones?
Dan Patt, an experienced drone engineer and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute research group, said he and I could make our own delivery drone in a garage in about a week for less than $5,000. The basics aren’t that hard.
But the real world is infinitely complex and drones can’t deal with that. At rapid speeds, drones must accurately “see” and navigate around buildings, electrical wires, trees, other aircraft and people before landing on the ground or sending packages down from a height. GPS might conk out for a split second and crash the drone. There’s little room for error.
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