• Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 days

        of course it’s a plus, imagine requiring humans with drone pilot licenses to fly them - shareholders would be so disappointed!

    • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
      3 days

      Shhhh!!! Careful! The Germans might hear you.

      Edit: My apologies to the Germans.

  • Photonic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 days

    I see that they’ve skipped the entire enshittification process and just jumped straight into delivering shit

    • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
      3 days

      Avoiding traffic and using an electric vehicle instead of a ICE one. In Bay Area traffic an electric drone can do a delivery in five minutes that would take a car thirty. And the Zipline style high hover + tethered descent drone is quieter than a car. I’m not sure if these are using that style or the low hover type like Amazon had been using, which are much louder.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 days

      The only benefit I could think of isn’t going to be in the areas that they want to deploy this service.

      Like, I could see this being advantageous in lower populated areas that don’t really have DoorDash drivers.

      But yeah, if you’re in a populated area, I don’t really get why I would want this over. Just having a traditional driver that arrives.

      I guess if the system told me that it was going to be delivered by drone, so therefore I knew not to tip ahead of time? idk