Amazon sending test packets with drones - The País.com (Spain)

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Jeff Bezos is a genius, and that adds a touch of madness. He managed to transform a website that was selling textbooks at a supermarket where you can find everything, even food. And his idea of ?? online store also revolutionized the logistics for the distribution of products purchased by the customer. Most shipments are made by Amazon land with trucks. But that could change in the rotation of five years, if it goes ahead the last great ambition. Making small drone delivery service

CEO and founder of Amazon gadgets introduced in the 60 Minutes CBS. His lab works on drones eight helices that could bring the product from distribution centers to your door in half an hour. Have autonomy to a radius of 16 kilometers and can carry about 2.5 kilograms. But for this new project a reality Bezos must have prior approval of the safety regulator in the airspace. Additionally, you must tune the technology that Amazon PrimerAir system is effective and efficient.

Bezos believes these flyers robots could begin to soar in the U.S. in four or five years. Be completely autonomous and will be guided by GPS. But he admits that the biggest obstacle to the deployment of these drones is legal. Redundancy also because, as explained must ensure “that do not land on someone’s head.” “It sounds like science fiction, but it is not,” he insists. It is also a sign of frenzy soon take home packages. A few weeks ago announced an agreement with the Postal Service to make deliveries on Sundays.

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science fiction, the drones are already used for most routine tasks, from monitoring to the same beaches to gossip of the neighbor’s yard, but as Bezos says the problem is not technological but legal and security , as cities could populate moscardones downloading books (out of the initiative are washing machines and other heavier and bulky items).

Another thing is shipping to remote locations. In any case Amazon needs to find a solution to the main problem with e-commerce: the last mile. The home delivery of any item purchased online and that makes the final price. In these decades the Internet has greatly improved technology, from the web to the purchasing process, but transport of goods has remained unchanged. Bezos within five years given to dispatchers packet drop from the sky.