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Who wakes up saying "gosh my life would be so much better if I could just buy things faster"?
by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Who wakes up saying "gosh my life would be so much better if I could just buy things faster"?
- chongli 7y agoWell, we’re talking about food delivery here. I’d order food much more often if it arrived quickly and thus was hotter when it got here.
- oblib 7y agoAnd with no cares or worries that the noise would bug the hell out of your neighbors? Come on... this is an awful idea.
- oh_sigh 7y agoNow would that be my neighbors who drive a dirtbike around their property for 6 hours a day, or the neighbors who tie their dog up outside at night and let it bark constantly at 2am?
- catalogia 7y agoSounds like the broken windows theory in action.
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoSounds racist man.
- drewmol 7y agoThe dirtbike around their property neighbors.
- khawkins 7y agoBrick and mortar stores are going out of business left and right based on the market reality that people are more than willing to wait 2 days for their items if it's cheaper and is delivered to their door. I think it's an extremely niche market, so I think it'll only be successful if you charge out the nose for the delivery.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThey're going out of business because their inventory sucks. Every recession makes them suck more as MBAs optimize for lower quality and less selection.
- llukas 7y agoYou do not have kids, don't you?
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoI’d love to hear the connection explained.
- GordonS 7y agoI have kids, and this isn't a problem for me - not really sure what the children angle is here? I live in a small rural town in Scotland, yet Amazon and others can deliver stuff to my door the next day. In big cities, some companies even offer same-day delivery. Honestly, I don't need my stuff any quicker than that. I'm sure there are some genuinely useful niche uses for drones - for example, there was a recent HN post about a company in Africa doing drone delivery of medical supplies to remote and inaccessible locations. But I don't think it's a good idea to fill our skies with noisy, flying lithium batteries, just so you can get a pizza in 16 minutes instead of 18.
- londons_explore 7y agoDo you own a blender? How often do you use it? Do you not think that the economic and environmental cost of producing that blender is too large, considering how rarely you use it? It literally sits unused 99.99% of the time. Talk about inefficiency! If a drone service could deliver a blender in 5 minutes when you had blending to do, and take it away again when you're done, the blender could get much better utilisation by being shared with the entire town, at a lower economic and environmental cost. The same probably applies to nearly everything in your house.
- heavyset_go 7y ago"Sharing economy but with drones" is a weird choice of hills to die on in 2019.
- imihai1988 7y agoGood way of "disrupting" the blender/appliances market.
- tripzilch 7y agoIt's the people who wake up saying "gosh my life would be so much better if I could just sell things faster", they're not really looking to improve your life, just the bottom line.