[out-of-ideas]

i for one dont want some noisy ass mosquito camera recording pos flying around me that frequently. noise and light pollution are frustrating; though i can see where populated areas are already trained where that pollution is normal, adding a bit more is tolerable (edit: not that i want to be subject to that)

i would also be okay with the peoples jobs being replaced by the robots offered early retirement, paid fully by these big corps.. but of course that means the big corps would charge the rest of us more money over the longrun so that cost would not hurt their bottom line

[rufus_foreman]

Delivery trucks are louder than drones.

[gazook89]

A delivery truck carries many packages, and delivers them along a route. A drone carries one package. In my neighborhood, that could be a drone every few minutes flying overhead.

Electric delivery trucks are also much quieter than a drone.

And, as another commenter suggested, heavy packages will still be done by truck. So we’ll have trucks AND drones.

[rufus_foreman]

>> Electric delivery trucks are also much quieter than a drone

The typical delivery truck here has rap music playing so loud you can hear it two blocks away, no exaggeration. Drones could possibly maybe not do that?

[ticulatedspline]

no they're not. Having been subject to Wing drones they are horrible.

A car or truck might be a bit noisy but it's low frequency and typically will drive by once maybe twice a day, and you probably can't hear it more than half a block from your house and only on the road side. if it's delivering next door the truck is making no noise during delivery.

The drones are like giant mosquitoes with direct line of site to all sides of your house. They can be heard from half a mile away and they can deliver constantly. if it's delivering next door it will also deliver it's annoying noise the entire time it's hovering nearby.

At one point I was doing some gardening and had 6 flyovers in 30 minutes directly over my head. 3 out 3 back. extremely invasive, extremely noisy, extremely annoying. And unlike a truck there's really no limit to how many drones you could experience in a day.

Drone delivery is a blight.

[burnt-resistor]

ICE-powered trucks are louder than drones able to carry small packages. But carrying heavy packages will require extremely large and loud drones. All drones though are louder than EV trucks.

[out-of-ideas]

but they are not directly over my house, they go on the allocated roads on a schedule... but taking it to the gig-services, yes they could be more frequent and louder. the thing with sounds pollution is i dont hear the street-traffic on one side of my house. if its overhead theres no escape (edit: coupled, like i said, with all the information gathering those drones will be equipped with)

[bryanlarsen]

If you live in a typical suburban house a delivery truck might be a couple dozen feet away whereas a delivery drone is going to be a couple hundred feet above you.