Drones - couriers of the future?
Regular couriers with a human face can be replaced by copter couriers. The founder of Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos, said that the company plans to launch a new type of delivery using "octocopters", which can deliver the goods to the client within 30 minutes after completing the order. It sounds tempting, even very. Nevertheless, the presence of one desire is not enough, and reality breaks Bezos's dreams. And now we will try to consider the pros and cons of such delivery, as well as the very possibility of its implementation. The undoubted advantage of this type of delivery is speed. According to the Moscow company "Copter Express"- Delivery time can be 10 minutes at a distance of 3 km. Powerful, nothing to say, especially when you consider that this distance is almost in a straight line, taking into account the flight of high obstacles. The drone does not need to make its way along the roads, take into account traffic jams. However, the main minus lies right there - the maximum flight range is 5 km, and the time in the air is 30 minutes. This excludes fast delivery to remote areas of megacities without the presence of intercepting stations, which will undoubtedly increase the time and cost of delivery. Further, the carrying capacity is only 3 kg, which is very good for documents, small things, but if you need to deliver several books on programming, for example, from the same Ozon.ru, it may already be an unbearable burden for the drone. Although no one insists on the need to transport cabinets with such a “flying courier”,
Also, do not forget about factors such as weather conditions and areas prohibited from flying, as well as areas of high-rise or chaotic buildings, with optics, power and other cables thrown here and there, where the drone will have to lay the route itself, which should increase time of delivery. And if, nevertheless, the drone learns to plot a route based on the above conditions, then all the same the battery life leaves much to be desired. Also, do not forget that for each such drone operating on a permanent basis, permission from the aviation authorities for flights will be required. And, frankly, this method is clearly not safe: in remote areas, both the copter itself and its cargo can be stolen. Various grids, intercept drones,
But we are sure that all problems can be solved, before letters did deliver pigeons at all, and quite successfully. And if you manage to increase the battery life of the drone, as well as solve problems with navigation and security, then this can be a great alternative to foot couriers, which in essence are the main competitors of drones in the delivery market today. How realistic this is in practice, one can only guess and find rare attempts to implement this know-how (for example, delivery of Pizza Dodo ). Will our service be on ordering various goods and services of Hottabychuse drones? Of course, we are very actively working on this issue now! After all, they can be used not only for the delivery of documents or pizza. For example, you are walking with a girl in a park, and here, having opened the skies, a copter