| ▲ | ggreer 3 hours ago |
| Consider that drones substitute for cars and trucks driving through neighborhoods. For the same payload delivered, ground vehicles cause significantly more property damage, environmental damage, and injuries/deaths. |
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| ▲ | jacquesm 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| That truck carries 500 packages. That drone one or two at best so to replace one truck you're looking at 100's of flights + return flights. And I'm not convinced the risks are lower. |
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| ▲ | jsheard 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Trucks also don't sound like a swarm of angry bees, in fact the all-electric fleet that Amazon uses around here barely sounds like anything at all. Drones would be a huge step backwards for noise pollution. | | |
| ▲ | pixl97 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | >Trucks also don't sound like a swarm of angry bees, Heh, you've not heard my neighbors riced out car then. | | |
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| ▲ | ggreer an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | A truck travels a greater distance to deliver those 500 packages to the same locations, as it must take roads instead of flying in a straight line. And roads are much more likely to have people on them than a random patch of ground. Also the truck weighs several tons. The weight requires more energy to move stuff around, and has more kinetic energy than an 80lb drone. | | |
| ▲ | throwawaylaptop an hour ago | parent [-] | | You should really consider how much energy it takes to levitate an 80lb drone while flying across town, compared to how much energy it takes to roll an 8000lb van across town (even ignoring the fact that the van might deliver 100 packages while making it's way across town). |
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| ▲ | malfist 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The semi truck isn't driving through my backyard recording video of me. And I doubt the economics of scale make the truck more environmentally damaging than a drone delivering a single item |
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| ▲ | Gigachad 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| In my area packages are often delivered on what looks something like an electric golf cart. It's efficient, safe, and minimally disruptive. |
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| ▲ | appreciatorBus 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It's almost as if .. if noise, property damage, enviro damage, injury and death.. are the problems, then we should regulate everything that do those things equally rather than trying to pick winners among various transport modes. But among other things, this would mean holding people responsible for the incredible damage anyone can do with a car and the people will not stand for being told they cannot go vroom vroom. Additionally since we refuse to regulate until there is a crisis, anything that is new automatically has an advantage over anything that is old, regardless of which causes fewer issues per unit of work (package delivery etc). |
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| ▲ | venturecruelty 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | "I don't want a noisy neighborhood, but I want to drive my two-ton death trap that you can't see toddlers in front of and I also don't want to see any of my neighbors and also I want any object in the world deliverable within 24 hours." | | |
| ▲ | potato3732842 an hour ago | parent [-] | | >"I don't want a noisy neighborhood, but I want to drive my two-ton death trap that you can't see toddlers in front of and I also don't want to see any of my neighbors and also I want any object in the world deliverable within 24 hours." I live in a noisy neighborhood with commercial truck thru traffic. I don't have any particular love for the noise or the trucks, but the kind of people who complain about noise and machines will mostly don't select to live here which is good because I find those people to be bad generally. |
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