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"The chief executive of drone delivery company Wing says 2024 is “the year of
drone delivery”. The company first went public in 2014 as a Google “moonshot”
project and now operates in several cities in Australia, the United States and
Finland, with plans to expand further.
Wing promises fast, cheap delivery of food and groceries at the touch of a
button, with critics voicing concerns about personal intrusions such as noise
and privacy. But what are the real challenges of having delivery drones in your
neighbourhood?
To find out, I’ve been spending time in Australia’s “drone zones”, interviewing
residents and local business operators in trial suburbs across Canberra and
Logan in Queensland. It turns out noise and privacy aren’t their main problems.
Instead, people talked about larger, infrastructural issues – bad traffic, poor
public transport, and other failures of urban planning – and how drone delivery
is being proposed as a band-aid solution."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
