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The most important delivery breakthrough since Amazon Prime
CNBC's Disruptor 50 ^
| May 22, 2018
| Sara Salinas
Posted on 05/22/2018 12:08:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
•Drone start-up Zipline International conducts up to 500 drone flights a day, delivering packages accurately and without damage.
•Zipline recently launched the world's fastest commercial drone.
•The packages it delivers are blood bags for hard-to-reach areas in Rwanda, but Zipline's experience puts it ahead of tech giants like Amazon and Google that are also experimenting with drones for shipping....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: delivery; drones; rwanda; zipline; ziplineinternational
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Amazon already years ago experimented with Drone delivery systems in Germany. It worked great except ...
except that terrorists could attach a bomb to it.
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posted on
05/22/2018 12:24:13 PM PDT
by
Hostage
(Article V)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Woot.com already pioneered the concept of drone delivery. OK, so it was a fat guy in a bee suit, but it worked...
To: Hostage
Sure, and they can do the same when autonomous cars run around. There's always a chance for bad in any situation.
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posted on
05/22/2018 12:29:01 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
05/22/2018 12:39:56 PM PDT
by
ltc8k6
To: ltc8k6
Parts seem like they are..................
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posted on
05/22/2018 12:41:36 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just don’t let ISIS join the board.
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posted on
05/22/2018 12:45:11 PM PDT
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: ltc8k6
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posted on
05/22/2018 12:56:14 PM PDT
by
Darteaus94025
(Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
To: Osage Orange
“Parts seem like they are..................”
Be careful...
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posted on
05/22/2018 12:56:49 PM PDT
by
ltc8k6
To: 2ndDivisionVet
But who’s my neighbor’s rotweiller gonna bite if all the packages 📦 are air-dropped by flying drones? This is getting serious. He needs his protein
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posted on
05/22/2018 1:06:50 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: ltc8k6
Rwanda is not the USA. Oh yeah? You just try going to the near West and near South sides of Chicago and try saying that again.
WAR ZONES.
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posted on
05/22/2018 1:07:33 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Injury and damage lawyers are going to have ‘a field day’ with this - as will other criminals.
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posted on
05/22/2018 2:19:47 PM PDT
by
elbook
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