Solid meh from me. Only thing I really don’t like about it is it’s likely to impact the personal rights to fly drones we enjoy today (which are already being chipped away).

Otherwise, they’re probably not very loud or frequent, don’t really present much of a privacy issue vs. what street view already has, and they maybe make the roads a bit safer. Might take some jobs away from delivery van drivers. Nothing seems worth getting overly concerned for.

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asdff 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Probably half my immediate neighbors get an amazon delivery a day. The truck makes sometimes two or three stops throughout the day and is there for like 15-20 minutes running packages. The thought of that replaced with drone traffic is crazy. It would be like dozens of landings and overflights per hour. It is already bad enough when the realtors fly their drones overhead. I can't imagine the birds and bees aren't getting stressed out if it's managing to piss me off.

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alistairSH 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Same. Even outside the holiday season, there are 5+ package truck deliveries/day on my little street (12 houses). That's UPS, FedEx, USPS, usually multiple Amazon (which always surprises me), plus a couple unmarked vans. Plus couriers in cars. Plus food delivery, at least 2 a night. Almost all the Amazon vans are now electric Rivians or GMCs.

That's a LOT of drone traffic, given there's near zero ability to double up on a single stop as there is today.

	▲	throwaway2037 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I recently started seeing electric delivery vans from IKEA in my city. One thing I really noticed: They are whisper quiet compared to diesel trucks.

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TRiG_Ireland 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What on earth are people buying that's delivered so frequently? I find the whole concept of frequent deliveries confusing.

	▲	dylan604 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		who cares what they are buying. it's truly none of your business. there are people that buy things on a whim and do not even for a second think about slowing down to buy things at once to reduce the number of deliveries. if they did that, they'd forget about it and not actually purchase that whim. there could also be multiple independent people at the same address buying things in this manner.
	▲	throwawaylaptop an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		You must not have lived with many under 40 women recently. Every single one I know orders things on amazon constantly, often forgetting what the delivery even might be. They also order several items of the same type so they can compare and return the others. If I had to guess, returns for female vs male must be atleast 5:1.

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rogerrogerr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sounds like there’s an opportunity for bigger drones where you are. Lower frequency noise, fewer flights if you can drop more than one package per flight.

I just have a hard time seeing this becoming a major quality of life issue in the real world. It’s gonna be fine.

And birds and bees seem to be fine around waterfalls and airports, I think they’ll survive drone noise.