Wednesday, April 24, 2019
In Search Of A Mission
The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the first drone delivery service to work as an airline. The company will now start testing in Virginia and elsewhere. It strikes one as a technology in search of a mission. There is little to show so far that drones will add enough marketing power to a business that they are worth the expense. In rural Africa they have been useful in delivering medicines that are hard to distribute in any other way, but the US has the infrastructure needed to get from place to place quickly. In any event, drones are unlikely to be useful in urban environments among apartment buildings and skyscrapers where delivery to a specific location is hard to achieve. Delivery drones are a gleam in the eyes of technologists who are convinced the aerial vehicles can be better, faster and cheaper than other methods. They haven't proven to be that yet. In fact, they are still a little more than expensive toys in the last mile of delivery.
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