Package Delivery By a Drone, Good or Bad Technology?

The use of drones will put some people out of a job. I don't know how I feel about machines flying through the air carrying items for delivery. I did get a package from Amazon in one day and that was neat. Mixed feelings about the drones.

 

I also have mixed feelings about the drones. I do like technology and the fact that things are now possible that weren't years ago. I love the idea of quicker delivery, and less traffic on the roads, but do not like the thought of a bunch of drones flying around. I haven't read up on the subject, so am not sure what height they fly, or whether they would/will interfere with things like cell towers, electrical and other wires, aircraft, etc., but I can imagine some of my neighbors using them for target practice.

Editing to add that I also am concerned about people losing their jobs. The economy is rough enough as it is, we definitely don't need more people losing their income, homes, etc.

 

I'll definitely have to read up on it. I wonder if the deliveries will be limited to those within a certain proximity of an Amazon warehouse? If so, they probably won't be in my neighborhood any time soon. On a side note, I found it odd when I was ordering some grocery items from Walmart a while back, to be home-delivered by truck, and they were unable to ship olive oil to my area, claiming it was restricted. I don't know if that meant restricted by their particular delivery company, but it seemed odd. You raised a good point with the spy and killer drones, and now I'm wondering how easy it would be to hack into the system.

 

The biggest problem I see so far with the idea of "delivery" drones is the one thing I doubt if the IT folks have thought of.
Drones, no matter how large or how small, have not been properly introduced to the masses as of yet.
If you are my age or a little older you might possibly understand that there is absolutely no sense for somebody sending their whirly-gig to my house without thoroughly introducing me to whatever it is they might be exposing me to. If I am not consciously and totally aware of what is approaching myself, my wife, my home and especially my work-shop.........it gets whacked.
I recognize the UPS, mailman, FedX, and the pizza guy so they are safe. Everything else, especially if it was a flying critter of sorts and lands on my porch or lawn, it gets whacked like the UFO that it is!
I am not going to wait for a tiny door to open and no, I do not even like my leader so why would I take whoever comes out to see him. After all, in my way of thinking, introducing ET to O'Bama would be a dead give away regarding our ability to defend ourselves. It would be better for all if I just whacked it and buried it. If, per chance it might have been one of those delivery thingies, let whoever sent it, find it! (especially if it was from the IRS)

There is one thing I have to consider though. My wife or the pope may want to meet with the critter and baptize it or something but as for me I will indeed show it what being at the short end of a stick really means. If my wife doesn't catch me, the critter will be somewhere in somebody's south forty. If, perchance my wife does catch me however, I might possibly be in for some up close and personal experience with our couch at night and a possible dent in my head to boot.

Please, do understand, I am not against progress by any means. But, we do live very close to one of the largest arsenals in the U.S. so I am pretty well prepared for whatever the arsenal produces such as: boom, bang, whump, thump, roar, and the ever popular rattling of windows, plates and glasses and the howling of dogs during the siren tests. Yes, I am used to all of that, so allow me the room to do the Joe Biden and lock and load a 12 gauge, or use a piece of hickory, or a pizza paddle for all other things in question. WHACK! best bury that.............it looked a tad larger than a bumble bee.

 

Bobby, You said "if my wife doesn't catch me." That's something I have to be careful about. Our UPS driver and our " mailman" are both female and the same two have been coming here every since we moved here eight years ago. Just recently ( the last two deliveries ) the FedX guy has been replaced by a very young and very pretty female. So, as long as my wife doesn't catch me looking I would like to keep things as they are. I may have to resort to shooting drones too.

 

We, as married men must keep our priorities and defend them if need be. One thing I am perfectly assured of by my wife, is that I can treat all "looking" like I treat my diet. If the chocolate cake isn't on my diet list, I can't mess with it but I am allowed look at it. Us "older" married guys know the difference between something that is easy on the eyes, and something that might cause a bunch of "hot tongue and cold shoulder" when our eyes make US look too easy. We might wind up waiting for a drone to come help us pack.

 

I am not sure how old you are Bobby, but when I was a kid, I would have loved to see drones flying around. Sling shot, or BB gun and the drone would go down and I would have something new to play with or sell!

 

At least with a drone, you could tell your wife it attacked first! We've all seen the TV shows and movies where the drones come to life and we have to defend ourselves against it. At least, that would be my defense - that's my story and I'm sticking to it! As long as you whack it good enough, she shouldn't be able to tell it wasn't in attack mode.

 

I'm not sure how I feel about drones. I've seen so much about them being "bad", it's hard to see them as a useful, good thing. But I can see how they might be used for things like deliveries. I'm sure 100 years ago, people couldn't imagine those evil mechanical horseless carriages being everywhere. But we've grown quite fond of them since.

It is kind of Jetson's though. It might be fun! Until there's so many of them that they start crashing into each other and raining down on earth. See, there I go again, assuming they are going to be evil.

 

You used some great analogies, Yvonne! I guess there may be good or bad in all things...of course, I am only good! LOL