I just watched a woman in Ashville area get her insulin dropped off by drone and finally a use case in not mad at
I don't know if it happened (it easily could be one of those things techbros talk up but don't do) but early on there was a lot of hype for planned COVID vaccine deliveries by drone in rural Africa.
relevant good news: www.flyzipline.com/newsroom/sto...
Are you familiar with the extremely vertical city of Chongqing? It’s another city I feel like drone delivery makes a lot of sense
Until you see someone knock one out of the sky to steal the contents
the use case we were promised by the science=progress idealists!the use case we were promised by the science=progress idealists!
I do like the aerial photography we get now.....especially for archaeology
rural roads are really EXPENSIVE, new-fangled flying things could be great there (rural sí, cities no)
This is the sort of thing they promised us so it does bring joy.
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