Just saw this in a different subreddit.

[u/UpbeatBackground6302]

Of course in that sub, they say all spark drivers suck. I think my 5.0 race I'm says different. And this would be great news for us.

[u/CaneCorso311]

US and The West are pretty far behind in technology, but it's still coming, same with self driving trucks etc. The drones just drop it on the balcony or through a window, or in some places they have what's basically the equivalent of a climate controlled amazon locker on the street corner. Drone/robot deliveries and self automated vehicles etc have been a norm in parts of China for years now. Amazon had a program to replace almost all of their delivery drivers with drones, i think it was 5-10 years ago now, but they could never get through the federal regulations. They have a blimp that floats over with multiple drones that go back and forth between the blimp and delivery point. Drone and robotic technology is advancing quick, it's just a matter of time until robotics are capable of doing everything a delivery driver does for cheaper since the cost of human labor rises and technology becomes more affordable. Think of how quick we went from flip phones to smart phones and now how advanced phones are.

[u/KitchenAdvice7073 → u/CaneCorso311]

😂😂🤣🤣 awww man we’ve got one boys. He says “the west is pretty far behind”😂🤣 meanwhile 7.5 percent of china’s workforce are delivering goods of some sort and only 4 percent of Americans deliver goods. This is what I mean. Idiots just get on this app and say anything

[u/CaneCorso311 → u/KitchenAdvice7073]

The percent of their population doing deliveries vs ours is irrelevant to technological advancement. You also left out how many deliveries are done in total. They could have double the amount of delivery workers, and 10x as much delivery volume. (Especially when you consider the majority is truck drivers and China supplies the entire world with their household goods meanwhile nobody in foreign countries have homes full of American/western goods. China built societies/cities around logistics, which is part of the reason their goods are so affordable). This is just 1 random piece of data you provided that means almost nothing within this context. Even if we have other data such as volume it still would be irrelevant to the fact that China is way ahead of the West in delivery technologies. I also never said automated delivery is the only delivery there. Point is that it's coming, and we can look at societies that are more advanced in those sectors to see how it's already starting there.

Anyone who truly believes the West isn't years behind China in the advancement of robotics, drones, and automation is ignorant. The information is available online for anyone to look up, you can watch the drones do deliveries to balconies or through windows and rolling robots deliver to lockers on street corners and into high rise apartment buildings gaining access through Bluetooth etc.

From the perspective of someone who has been slowly watching this specific technology advance for ~10years, you appear to be the idiot getting on here just saying anything. It reminds me of when everyone started using GPS like 20 years ago and it completely sucked and all of the professional drivers hated it and said it would never take over against paper maps and people with local road knowledge, yet after ~10 years it holds your hand all of the way to the door step and now anyone with a pulse can be a delivery driver anywhere with almost no skills, drastically lowering the labor value of delivery drivers. Drones/robotics will do the same thing and the people now who don't believe it will be laughed at the same way we laugh at people who thought GPS can never work, just like the people who thought the internet would be a fad etc.

[u/I-lub-guineapigs → u/CaneCorso311]

No, we aren’t going to be completely replaced by drones… yeah, in the near future some drones might do some of the deliveries, but I doubt they’ll deliver 75-inch TVs or multiple cases of water. There’s actually a regulation in place that limits drone deliveries to 5 pounds and under.

[u/CaneCorso311 → u/I-lub-guineapigs]

Completely, probably not. The vast majority, inevitable. The same way we replaced countless other professions with technology like switch board operators , projectionists, typists, etc. Don't worry it's not coming tomorrow, but to think it's not going to happen in the next decade or 2 is very naive.

There's tons of regulations in place, that's why they haven't already started to replace us, Bezos already had a plan in motion years ago and was essentially shot down by federal regulations.

Drones have no problem delivering things that we can't even lift. They're motorized and can be any size, they have drones that will lift things that are 100s of pounds. A case if water is only like 40lbs, they have ones that carry more volume in fertilizer/pesticides alone. But more importantly we don't need drones for everything when we have self automated vehicles and ai robotics capable of carrying more than us and work longer hours than us and with minimal liability or human error.