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by phito 1113 days ago
I really don't think it's feasible without some kind of AGI (or human) on the controls. There are so many environmental, technical, societal and regulatory issues to tackle. They make a lot of noise (although some are much quieter now), people could very easily jam their communication signals (or just shoot at them), birds, hardware failures, ... I worked on last-mile delivery project at a drone startup, we could do cool demos that impressed shareholders, but I could never see that working in the wild, people would get hurt.

Also, once you solve the last-mile problem, a new one arises: the last-foot problem...

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It's not rocket science, that's for sure.