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ericthered06
February 4, 2022 at 1:36 pm
Or it can drop 500lbs. ????
Matthew Viramontes
February 4, 2022 at 1:50 pm
This is cool, but it’s not for your average delivery like pizza, groceries or packages. I’m a pizza delivery driver and I can tell you for a fact that most people don’t have 50 square feet of open space for this thing to land. Even on streets sometimes there’s not space because cars are parked there or it’s a thin road.
Frank Reynolds
February 4, 2022 at 3:36 pm
Well this doesn’t do individual deliveries so doesn’t matter if people have space or not, it’s being used for warehouse hub delivery.
Wayne Montgomery
February 4, 2022 at 1:50 pm
I also see this technology being used by the United States Post Office. This will help the Post Office improve delivery times and take trucks off the road when it comes to remote post offices reciving large and small volumes of mail thats going to remote locations.
sel18
February 4, 2022 at 1:51 pm
I can see this being massively helpful in counties around the world where the road infrastructure is not as extensive as the US. There are many populations centers around the world that are virtually cut off from the main transit systems and this could help shorten the logistical issues that scenario presents. With a payload like that, depending on the cost, I can envision this being an early step in bringing communities in deeply isolated locations closer. Certainly it isn’t a 100% solutions, there would be noise concerns, accounting for burning fuel and so on, but I’m glad to see this sort of innovation.
शांतु
February 4, 2022 at 2:10 pm
Trucks are better
San Bleb
February 4, 2022 at 2:18 pm
This is next level
Vincent Redden
February 4, 2022 at 2:28 pm
Bad for the environment, we’re in a time where we’re facing frequent hurricanes and fires caused by the global warming why can’t it be fully electric
John Salazar
February 4, 2022 at 2:29 pm
Sorry but the cost per flight is going to be prohibitive. Might be good for delivery of human organs to hospitals as cost isn’t as much of an issue there.
PrettyAngel31
February 4, 2022 at 2:38 pm
These cargo drones would definitely reduce a lot of CO2 in the air from delivery vans, trucks and other types of cars that are on the road today. Very impressive.
Henry Colling
February 4, 2022 at 3:00 pm
This is very important and. Being of something new. And. Could be a. Mark. For. This. Stuff
Mikael Peter Resting-Jeppesen
February 4, 2022 at 9:40 pm
ABC
William Pitcher
February 4, 2022 at 3:05 pm
The past tense of, “There once was a cartoon” made me feel old.
Cyan Kirkpatrick
February 4, 2022 at 3:07 pm
WTF what the Flight good idea I mean my great niece had a disaster with Fed up Ex a driver just threw her package in the yard and sped off and the dogs destroyed her package and when I heard about it I was ???????? this is would be much better, she lives in a rural area I’m tired of the FAA getting in our business and why do we have need their permission anyway I know up until a certain distance there’s no need for a permission slip.
Maarten Toors
February 4, 2022 at 3:13 pm
My money is on:
1- Humanitarian aid (fingers crossed)
2- Military use (more probable)
This will not (in my opinion) be delivering consumer products.
Vector Pacer
February 4, 2022 at 3:30 pm
Seems it will die some years
Shaggys105
February 4, 2022 at 3:41 pm
500 pound drone flying over residential areas at low altitudes? The Faa says no
Danner Banks
February 4, 2022 at 3:55 pm
Great name
Rev. Jim Jones and the Kool-Aid Drinkers.
February 4, 2022 at 3:56 pm
Oh good, it’ll be able to drop.bombs too.
TheEdoubleP
February 4, 2022 at 4:01 pm
It would be cool if while landing it transforms into a robot to deliver the package, cool and terrifying.
IamBrige
February 4, 2022 at 4:01 pm
These delivery systems are great, but unfortunately I don’t have much faith in humanity to keep these going. I can see them being shot out of the sky and torn apart, or stolen. Just look what happened to the traveling robot several years ago.
sherri moquin
February 4, 2022 at 6:45 pm
Do you think CNET knows that where you said those kinds of drones can be shot out of the sky or stolen?
rishabh
February 7, 2022 at 4:15 pm
it might work in Scandinavian countries
Sonja unome
February 4, 2022 at 5:05 pm
And can do better than usps thats for sure. If i did as bad a job as our local post office anybody rlse would be let go.
Mr Bamfo
February 4, 2022 at 9:39 pm
Mail delivery issues are largely due to one party in congress trying to kill the post office for the last couple of decades. They made the post office front load their pension plan, nobody else has to do that, and it put them billions of dollars in the hole. Most people don’t realize the post office isn’t funded through government taxes, They’re independent and funded by postal rates.. So if they’re running huge deficits, there are only so many things you can do to right the ship. Rate hikes, aging infrastructure, slower delivery. It’s a long term plan they’re executing to get public opinion to become negative enough where they can privatize it. The same party has been running this same plan against the government since the 80s. When you’re constantly demonizing the government and cutting funding for programs time and time again to where they finally get it where it doesn’t function well they can advocate getting rid of it.
Slick Big Bank
February 4, 2022 at 5:30 pm
Will not work. If advanced military drones aren’t perfect then you damn sure don’t want to be underneath this one when it crashes. They all crash! Weather, malfunctions, and human error.
Trevor Dennis
February 4, 2022 at 5:57 pm
First thought I had was this was going to be the new way drugs and people will be smuggled over the borders…
oO0Xenos0Oo
February 5, 2022 at 11:28 am
What do yoe mean by “new way”? Drones have been used for this purpose for quite some time now ????
Stephen Hughes
February 4, 2022 at 7:59 pm
Drone Delivery Canada Corp is also doing (TSX-V:FLT)
kevin keefe
February 4, 2022 at 8:57 pm
Drug traffickers are gonna love this. Book it.
Mr Bamfo
February 4, 2022 at 9:16 pm
They already use drones. They’re kind of a try everything kind of group. Tunnels, mules, boats, trucks, cars, sling shots, you name it. Oh, I forgot submarines.
Dovydas
February 4, 2022 at 11:13 pm
WTF is a bad name for this show to be honest. You guys should change it.
DoubleCTech
February 5, 2022 at 3:49 am
I think they made the right choice going with a hybrid system. Solid state batteries are still being developed and lithium batteries don’t have the energy density needed for flight. I think that will change in about a decade through.
Jim J
February 6, 2022 at 10:37 am
Yup, turbine generators running at their optimum rpms also are quite efficient and burn really cleanly compared to piston engines.
dhirender sahani
February 5, 2022 at 4:10 am
Wow thats awesome ????
lefthandedpolack
February 5, 2022 at 4:59 am
thats a lot of weed
Shreyash Kolhe
February 5, 2022 at 5:09 am
What about birds….what about kites
Eastman Webb
February 5, 2022 at 6:09 am
Call me when there’s no fossil fuel involved.
crazzylee
February 5, 2022 at 8:08 am
I think a better airfoil should be implemented
Paul Jackson
February 5, 2022 at 10:34 am
What do you mean you didn’t get your order? The drone “dropped” it exactly where it was supposed to.
C SMITH
February 5, 2022 at 1:09 pm
The skies will become very busy in the next 10-20 yrs
neosrt10
February 5, 2022 at 5:40 pm
Cool buy way too big for city use.
Mr. Spaghetti
February 5, 2022 at 6:23 pm
It already sounds noisy. How noises is it?
Luke Umaster
February 5, 2022 at 7:04 pm
Someone will steal it ????
Cryptonymicus
February 6, 2022 at 1:48 am
Video says 300 miles. Description says 500 miles.
LightBringer
February 6, 2022 at 2:08 am
I think this man has never been to a busy commercial warehouse. If he doesn’t want his drone waiting at each stop… he will not be able to use the current transportation networks. Bottlenecks!!!
Def do proof of concept elsewhere.
Spacepeing
February 6, 2022 at 12:51 pm
Conveniently it can also carry enough explosive to brought down a regular home itself
Rizizum
February 6, 2022 at 5:14 pm
So can an airplane
Jose Arreguin
February 6, 2022 at 8:29 pm
Cartels placing orders right now
rob
February 6, 2022 at 11:28 pm
Yea, theyre gonna hit it big.. Last mile delivery is a huge cost , and the trucking system in the US is currently broken.
Aschkan Sabaghi
February 7, 2022 at 6:44 am
Lol I’m not impressed!
Trip Wire
February 7, 2022 at 6:35 pm
They made a Covid jab safe enough to inject into adults and children in months but can’t do the same for a drone or anything else useful for that matter ?! smh