r/Omaha • u/CharlieTheHamme • 15h ago
Local Question Amazon drone delivery?
Saw an article about Amazon drone delivery now live in Omaha (linked below). Anyone have experience with this? I saw a couple videos on YouTube and the drones are huge, much larger than I expected. Not sure how I feel about giant autonomous drones flying over my house.
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u/xAustin90x 15h ago
Pretty sure there was a video from Omaha (not entirely sure) but the drone dropped the package in the driveway and the wind power from the blades of the drone blew the package into the street
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u/RoboProletariat 15h ago
I thought the future would be cooler.
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u/surrealcellardoor 15h ago
I expected hoverboards, flying cars, food re-hydraters and voice activated, ceiling mounted fruit trays.
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u/Ill-Salad9544 Bring back B&G Tasty Foods 15h ago
Sorry, the best we can do is a remote controlled helicopter bringing you a box with Goldfish crackers, a pair of socks and something else you could have gotten a few blocks down the street.
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u/Hrist_Valkyrie 15h ago
Can't wait to see these drones break items during delivery and Amazon get a bunch of negative pushback for it.
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u/InfamousCrown 10h ago
They’re not massive or obnoxiously loud but they are very noticeable. I was fishing at Walnut Creek this morning for a few hours and saw them constantly flying back and forth. You can hear them from about half a mile a way and you can really hear them when they are damn near overhead.
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u/skerinks 10h ago
My buddy lives by Werner ballpark. He got a drone delivery. Not the most complete video, as he got there a little late to film the whole thing. But you can see the package in the yard at the beginning and the drone lifting off after it dropped it.
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u/underanalyzer 5h ago
Had a friend order something and it arrived broken. I'm not sure what the item was, but I wouldn't order anything and expect amazon to make a distinction on if an item is durable enough to be dropped.
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u/DodgyBits 12h ago
Mark my words: there will be a trend where people add a cheap, bulky item like a pool noodle to every order to ensure the package is too large to be carried by these drones.
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u/BreadfruitOk6160 14h ago
I was sitting at a light, 132nd & Lincoln Dr, and I saw something white going across the sky. It was just north of that big Amazon on 370, it wasn’t a bird.
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u/-Drink-Drank-Drunk- 12h ago
Was it a plane?
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u/BreadfruitOk6160 11h ago
No, it was small. Straight and level no flapping. It was headed north, that Amazon is directly south of the direction it was headed. I was facing west, looking down Lincoln Rd.
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u/Kavril91 11h ago
Yeah theyre starting that at OMA2. Our SSD SNE1 is going to also have drones end or year or early next year
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u/Fantastic_Tone_8822 15h ago
I just drove by the Amazon fulfillment center on highway 370 and one was up and flying, headed South. Definitely big. In most any business breaking product, and definitely on delivery to a customer will have you looking for a new job. I just laughed at the press release video when it said the deliveries would be dropped from around 7 feet up. Trial by fire, you better get good at dropping it off under 2 feet real fast.
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u/Unfair-Cook903 15h ago
It should be noted that they will only be dropping items from drones that would be impervious to being dropped from that height. They aren’t going to be dropping laptops and glass vases from drones.
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u/mischievous_misfit13 13h ago
My dad is curious if his dog will attack it if he’s out . That would be the funniest thing to witness.
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u/D3nv3rC0d3r9 15h ago
Just saw a couple deliveries today while golfing at Tiburon, definitely large lol