RewindAgain@futurology.today to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 2 years agoThe US FAA has given its first license to a company, Zipline, allowing them to fly drones autonomously.www.faa.govexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
arrow-up118arrow-down1external-linkThe US FAA has given its first license to a company, Zipline, allowing them to fly drones autonomously.www.faa.govRewindAgain@futurology.today to Futurology@futurology.todayEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square4linkfedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foo
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoParachute? Last I talked to them, they were planning to lower payloads via a … well, kind of a Zipline.
minus-squareRewindAgain@futurology.todayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 years agoZipline are hugely successful in Africa. The model there is to fly low & slow and drop the packages. https://impakter.com/how-drones-are-revolutionising-delivery-of-medicine/
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoRight, but this was what they described to me as their plan for US operations: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23639425/zipline-drone-delivery-autonomous-tether-droid
Parachute? Last I talked to them, they were planning to lower payloads via a … well, kind of a Zipline.
Zipline are hugely successful in Africa. The model there is to fly low & slow and drop the packages.
https://impakter.com/how-drones-are-revolutionising-delivery-of-medicine/
Right, but this was what they described to me as their plan for US operations: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23639425/zipline-drone-delivery-autonomous-tether-droid