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Comment Not perfect, but good (Score 1) 170

This should help. For really incriminating behavior, I would expect the cameras to "malfunction" most of the time. But for ordinary, day-to-day contact with the public, it will be a lot easier to just not act like a complete asshole than to hide the evidence later.

Comment Re:The main problem: they don't make sense (Score 1) 215

Want to get a package through Mumbai traffic?

Smaller vehicles, logistics, and the knowledge of local couriers.

Want to get a package to the balcony of a 60-story high-rise in Hong Kong?

Deliver it to the front door and take it up on the elevator.

Want to deliver packages to the houseboats of Amsterdam but can't afford the local wages?

Driverless vehicles. Or just charge enough to cover the cost of delivery.

Want to deliver medicine in Australia or Mongolia, where it's already economical to fly the doctor to the patient?

Doctors' time may be worth enough money to make flying worthwhile. Is a truck driver's time worth that much? Also, a bottle of medicine doesn't care if it takes an extra 12 hours to get where it's going.

And any drone that can carry a package a long distance will also have to carry a lot of heavy fuel.

Drones are an obvious win.

There will probably be some extremely rare cases where they make sense. Delivery to boats offshore, for example.

Comment Re:The main problem: they don't make sense (Score 1) 215

What's wrong with driver-less 1-wheeled vehicles ?

They tip over? I don't know. Lets see a prototype.

Now, what's wrong with zero-wheeled vehicles, ah, wait, that would be too similar to a drone to fit into your world view.

They waste too much energy staying airborne and they are less efficient and harder to build and more risky to operate and less resilient to weather than wheeled vehicles.

Comment Re:Do not want (Score 1) 215

There aren't enough isolated people getting frequent deliveries for it to make economic sense to deploy drones. Why spend millions of dollars developing a new technology to avoid a few trips a year?

Also, a drone that could carry a package 50 miles and return would have to carry a lot of additional weight in fuel. A driverless "car" big enough to carry a package would probably be able to make the delivery for a fraction of the cost.

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