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On one level, of course, a good option for the delivery of small items. You would not want a fridge or washing machine to be dropped by a drone from a height of nearly 4 metres. Four metres is quite high, in fact: you'd better not order any fine crockery, for instance.
The problem will be when this mode of delivery is scaled up, and you have dozens of companies relying on drones, and you have hundreds or thousands of drones flying around all the time, all over the place. They can be very noisy. Will they be allowed to make deliveries until 11.00 pm, for instance, in urban areas? Starting at 6.00 am because people want their delivery in before they set off for work.
I can easily see a point where this could become a nightmare, and another form of noise pollution - because cities are not noisy enough as they are.
Great.
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Amazon has become the first retailer in the UK to start a drone delivery service with a limited launch in Darlington, County Durham.
Packages weighing less than 5lb (2.2kg) and containing everyday items such as beauty products, batteries and cables are now being delivered within a 7.5 mile (12km) radius of Amazon's fulfilment centre.
The tech giant is convinced there is demand for ultra-fast deliveries and hopes to slowly expand the service.
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