AIBU to be a bit weirded out by the thought of drones delivering Amazon parcels?

[WorraLiberty]

Link to BBC story here

I know it's early days yet and the trials obviously mean they'll be looking into safety etc.

But I'm a bit worried about walking the dog and getting knocked out by a slow cooker or something, falling from the sky

What with that and Just Eat trialling Delivery Bots should I also be concerned about being run over by a maverick kebab, as I lie there bleeding?

But on a more serious note, if this sort of thing takes off, imagine how many delivery jobs will go?

Apparently you get given a landing mat and you place it wherever you want the drone to land.

Oh crap, I'll have to lug the fridge freezer and lob it through the roof myself

Or I could pay a redundant delivery driver to do it for me...

I'd love to have a McDonald's delivered this way :-), however on a serious note I'm wondering does this not break some sort of privacy law? I'm thinking of the next door neighbours, it's got to be recording stuff?

It says in the link that they won't have cameras.

But people are concerned that they won't know the difference between a delivery drone, and one that's recording them.

I know one will have a parcel, but obviously it won't on the way back.

They'll be a thieves dream come true. All they'd have to do would be to watch the drone flying in and decide whether they could intercept the parcel before the buyer picks it up.

Could they fly their own little criminal drones to follow the delivery drones? Would the police need a few drones up there to keep an eye on things?

True meg and anything that can be programmed can also be hacked.

Imagine having the know-how to divert all the parcels within say a 10 mile radius, to nearby wasteland and loading up a van.

It'll be interesting to see how (if) they can get around these things and what sort of security will be in place.

Shame about small packages but I would pay good money to an out of work delivery driver to lob a flying fridge freezer through exdhs window.😬

Well exactly ^^. Also what about the birds? Can you imagine the chaos as they emigrate? Seriously. And planes descending?

The ravenous teenagers would be good at hacking.

Actually, what about returns?

Are the public going to be trusted to re-package and attach them to the drones properly?

Or could I plan a slow cooker hit on my nasty neighbour and make it look like an accident?

I'm asking on behalf of a friend obviously....

Round here, they would be trapping them and imprisoning them.

I suppose slow cooker surreptitious hit could be blamed on returning drone error.

They'd find a way to intercept them, fill them with drugs and re-deliver around here

Thanks Portia

I mean my friend is very grateful >

And all because we're too fucking lazy to just go to the shops!

This world is becoming more like WALL-E every day 😱🙁🙈

Of course worra your friend is obviously not on Mn and cannot ask so needs you to advocate in her absence

Round here it will be like Christmas every day for thieves. I can imagine some making a very lucrative career out of lurking around gardens intercepting parcels. Drug selling? Thats so passe dahling, its all about parcel pimping now...

Knowing my luck the fridge freezer wouldnt crash land directly into their foreheads either, more likely straight into back window..

I can imagine people hanging out of tower blocks with fishing nets catching the drones and hauling them in!

Its like Harry Potter. Things flying to you as if by magic.

My dad has a fairly big hex-copter (drone is a dirty word to hobbists). There are many rules that get in the way of this, and for very good reasons.

• You can't fly anywhere near an airport or airfield (even that tiny one that hardly anyone knows about)
• can't fly above 400 feet (can fly over the orbit tower at Olympic park not the London eye)
• drones with cameras must not fly within 50 meters of a building or people or vehicles (no flying over roads)
• no flying over or within 150m or large groups of people
• must be within 500m horizontally and 122m vertically

Airports have been developing means of nietralising drones that pose a threat to aircraft. This includes comical net launchers to take down the drone, I imagine theives would use similar.

Nonsense idea that will never take off (no pun intended!) But Amazon keep mentioning it just for gimmicky publicity purposes.

I very much doubt the drones are capable of safely operating in areas that are heavily built up with a lack of clear open spaces, so inner cities and most densely populated suburbs would be out.
I doubt they can operate in anything other than near perfect weather conditions so wet, blustery days would be out.
They would definitely be targeted by thieves, either after they've dropped off the parcel or intercepted by hacking or by using a high powered catapult!

That's true about adverse weather conditions.

One strong gust of wind and we could get knocked out by a parcel intended to Slow-Cook someone's Boeuf Bourguignon

I'm totally against anything that will do away with jobs. There'll be that many out of work at this rate no one will have the money to buy anything off flippin amazon anyway..... Why does the world seem intent on making people redundant.

I know, it's the same with the banks.

Online banking caused many high street banks to close, and what little are left seem to be 'manned' mainly by machines.

AIBU for imagining the first drone flown in Norfolk crashing, then being worshipped as a god by the locals?

With British weather would there actually be any days it would be able to fly?
Too wet
Too windy
Too cold
Too sunny
Too many hailstones
Too many snowflakes
Too many leaves using about
Too many slow cookers that were on 2+1 sale at asda to deliver!