Amazon says it has been given approval from regulators to fly drones farther and deliver goods to more customers.

The company says the Federal Aviation Administration has given it permission to operate its drones beyond the sight on its operator, allowing the expansion of drone delivery.

The company says it has developed a system to allow the drone to detect and avoid other things in the air to improve safety.

  • tomasz@lemmy.sieprawski.pl
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    5 months ago

    BTW how do drone deliveries work when routing to apartment blocks?

    In case of house, there are singular front doors/curb/driveway/whatever. At least in Poland, there are apartment blocks with >10 staircases, each guard finite subset of apartments, like staircase 5 has apartments 65-81. Which apartment belongs to which starcase, you can learn only by going to the block, or knowing in advance.

    Then, people are coming and going in/out all the time Good luck if package is not stolen or damaged Or do you run to pick it :p

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      5 months ago

      IIRC, in the original showoff years ago, it would just deliver to a common area that you can walk to to pick it up.

      In the event that you’re not home to pick it up, I would hope there is some sort of scheduling option?