This is their response to Amazon's
recent announcement that by 2015 it hopes to be using drones to deliver packages within 30 minutes of being ordered.
Drone-delivery seems to be the hot new thing.
Less than two months ago, I posted about an Australian textbook rental service that hopes to soon be using drones to deliver books. But as I pointed out then, drones have also been a popular theme in the world of hoaxes. For instance, there was
TacoCopter (drones delivering tacos) as well as
Parrot Air Drone Postal from the French postal service.
I'm among the drone skeptics. Having thousands of drones flying around cities seems like a disaster waiting to happen. Then there's also the issue raised by this image circulating on
Twitter:
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