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online retailers Amazon wants to deliver packets with drones
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Unmanned Aircraft want to put the ordered goods right outside the door. “Prime Air” called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos futuristic service that his company plans. However, there are still some obstacles.
Jeff Bezos has once again an idea. And if Jeff Bezos has an idea, then it’s usually a major undertaking, a visionary, thought a few years in the future. So lets Bezos about a giant clock to build on his land in Texas that will show for 10,000 years time. So far the latest plan will not work. He seems to futuristic, but not unrealitisch: Amazon will continue to extradite its packages of mini-drones
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The company is currently testing the delivery of unmanned aerial vehicles, Bezos unveiled on Sunday night in an interview with the TV channel CBS. The drones with eight propellers, so-called “Oktokopter” would, according to Bezos stand out in the logistics centers, and take the goods ordered within 30 minutes at the customer’s door. Thus, the online retailer wants to save costs in the parcel delivery.
Amazon drones could carry parcels weighing up to 2.3 kilograms per delivery to cover a distance of about 16 kilometers. Only 14 percent of the ordered goods is more difficult, Bezos said – the Group could deliver so much of his future self Packages
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a name Bezos has already for the service: “Prime Air”. The Group demonstrates the plan in a video in which one of the aircraft picks up an order directly from the band of a logistics center and thus ends up in front of a house.
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However Bezos restricted itself also equal to one: The aircraft should initially receive a permit. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is only still in the process to establish rules for the use of drones in U.S. airspace. With a use of drones is therefore to be expected only in four or five years, estimates Bezos.
Ryan Calo, drone expert at the University of Washington in Seattle, points out that this is exactly the kind of use is that the Congress had in mind when he ordered the 2012 FAA to open airspace for Commercial Use Drones . “By 2015, the FAA needs to develop a set of rules that includes exactly what Amazon intends,” says Calo.
However, the Authority may require that the drones are controlled remotely active in the supply of people. That, Calo, would drive up the cost for the service so in height, that he would only for premium customers questioned.
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