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🔔You're going to LOVE drone deliveries

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Turns out people love the idea of drone deliveries...

That's the result of this survey in Christiansburg, Virginia...

It's a small town of ~22,000 people and the site of the first service in the U.S. to deliver goods directly to residences on demand via drone, launched by drone-delivery company Wing in October 2019..

(Wing is a subsidiary of Alphabet/Google)

The responses to the survey have been overwhelmingly positive, despite the 'noise' issues...

I looked up Wing on Wikipedia and this is all genuinely listed under 'noise complaints' (with actual citations) 👇

Residents in the rural southeastern region of Australia where Wing operates have complained about the disruption to their lives.

Let's take a look at this disruption...

  • A local dog club president stated the noise from the delivery drone trials spooks dogs when nearby. Some customers have opted-out of the trial citing this disruption.

  • One ecologist states they worry these "drones are taking to the air without a lot of thought for the ears of people on the ground."

  • In November 2019, the Australian Federal government found Wing's Canberra operation exceeded the residential noise standard 👇

I was all ready to dismiss this as a bunch of busybody Karens with nothing better to do, and then I saw this (2018) video...

Google/Wing: "our drones are quieter than a range of noises you would experience in a suburb", although they do make "a unique sound that people are unlikely to be familiar with."

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And it exceeds the 45-decibel daytime noise standard for residential areas in Canberra, the site of the world-first service.

That's what makes this survey especially interesting: It was conducted in an area where drone deliveries have been taking place for around 18 months at an average of 57 orders per week during 2020... (so nearly 3,000 deliveries in total)

Of the 821 respondents

  • 87% reported positive sentiments about the idea of drone delivery

  • Only 7% reported negative sentiment

There are still major regulatory issues to iron out, but the survey suggests that public sentiment will shift in favour of drones for deliveries as they become more familar with the concept 👇

Noise remains a big concern...

It's all heading in the same direction anyway, more trial projects have been announced in the UK, U.S. & Ireland... 👇

the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has authorised West Sussex-based drone company Sees.ai to begin operating regular flights beyond the pilot’s line of sight at three locations in the UK, to test the safety of opening the technology up to the wider industry.

The pandemic has exposed the fragility of supply chains, and even the most fixed 'this is just how we do things' attitudes will be challenged...

It's not just unmanned drones in the sky either...

In one possible version of the autonomous future — a model known as “depot-to-depot”—robot drivers would cover the long and relatively simple stretches of interstate driving and leave the trickier surface streets to human drivers who would take over at highway off ramps.

The robots could operate for hours on end without running afoul of service time rules and needing to stop only for fuel, while truckers would still have jobs and could sleep in their own beds at night.

TuSimple CEO Cheng Lu estimates that driverless trucks running more hours on the road can reduce hauling costs by 50%.

There is a huge amount of work still to be done on these projects, but with so many potential efficiency gains yet to be realised & green incentives thrown into the mix too, innovation in freight and logistics is sure to dominate corporate agendas in the coming years...

There's no way they'll want to put up with this again...