Source: World Wide Web
[Global Web Drone Channel Reporter Zhao Hanqing] US Los Angeles local media KCRW radio said on June 7 that Google and Amazon want to deploy thousands of drones over Los Angeles, so you can Get toilet paper faster.
Pepperdine University law professor and drone expert Gregory McNeal said he participated in the Ames study at NASA A conference organized by the center . A Google representative said at the meeting that they expect a city like Los Angeles to have at least 100,000 drone flights a day when they operate at scale. The representative of
said, "I think this number is very low now, right? If you think about how many people receive goods every day in the post-epidemic era. Many of these couriers can be done by drones, and the packages are very Small, weighing less than 5 pounds (about 2.3 kilograms). I expect this number to be well over 100,000 flights per day.”
Several big companies are reportedly looking at this area: Amazon, , Walmart, , Google, UPS, FedEx and Uber Eats. Kroger company has announced that it will begin drone deliveries at Ralph's restaurants in California this summer. At the same time, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is approving the expansion of these operations.
On the issue of noise in drone deliveries, McNeil said: "Technology will improve, it will become quieter. It may not be quiet enough in some very quiet neighborhoods, but in urban areas with ambient noise Might have been fine.
Lou Villalvazo of the local trucking association in Los Angeles worries that this will lead to fewer jobs, while McNeil believes the drone industry will create other jobs — making drones, maintaining drones Human-machine, working in warehouse to schedule delivery .
And regarding possible privacy concerns, reports say delivering toilet paper will be part of the drone delivery business model. Former California senator Hannah Bay Hannah Beth Jackson believes that the drone industry's plan is to speed things up and convince us that "faster toilet paper is better toilet paper", regardless of the data.
