Why did We Hear 5 Years Ago That Online Orders Would Be Delivered By Drone, And This Is Nowhere Near Happening Yet?
In: Economics
Some are, but there’s still a high cost to doing so.
Think about it this way, the USA has a large amount of paved roads. This makes it easy and cheap to deliver items, possibly even thousands if the vehicle is large enough.
However, not ALL of the US is paved. How do you deliver to someone if they don’t have roads near them?
Drones. The problem here is that drones are expensive and you can’t take nearly as many orders.
You can send thousands of packages by a semi truck, maybe 1 or two by drone. That doesn’t include that normal methods of delivery are tried and true through legal issues and temperature issues. Staffing may be a problem as well
Tldr; the cost vs reward is entirely too high.
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