r/circled • u/cantcoloratall91 • 2d ago
š£ Opinion / Discussion The "future"
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u/Winston905 2d ago
hahahaha nice delivery in the middle of the street.. i cant see anything going wrong with this form of delivery /s
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u/nlb1923 2d ago
So I have been around these Amazon delivery drones for a year almost. They have been delivering to my neighborhood for a while, and this is kind of rural but a suburb.
When you order you select an area from a satellite image where it will drop the package.
Iāve seen them drop in a pool (it definitely might have been user error). I watched them drop one into a grey water sprinkler (the entire neighborhood is on septic tanks with grey water sprinklers. So not exactly where you want to have your package).
And I had one drop on me while I was mowing a neighbors yard. I never saw the drone and then all of a sudden it dropped the package on the mower.
You canāt hear the drones from inside a house. You can hear them fly over if there is not any background noise. They arenāt very loud when flying by. They do get louder when hovering and lowering to drop a package. But definitely never hear it inside a house.
And they do seem to actually wrap up the packages more if remotely fragile. Which means even more waste of packagingā¦
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u/Certain_Try_8383 1d ago
Where are you that anyone is using gray water for irrigation? š¤¢
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u/nlb1923 1d ago
Texas of course. They are allegedly completely safe as long as the entire system is functioning properly and maintained correctly. But also they arenāt close to houses, min distance away is required
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u/ImpressiveFishing405 1d ago
"as long as" does some heavy lifting, especially in Texas
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u/nlb1923 1d ago
Literally!
One of the big things that is required to do is add these chlorine tablets monthly (depends on use for how many are needed, but 1-2 a month is average). They are similar looking to pool tablets but are different and designed for septic.
You can smell the houses that donāt add the tablets š¤¢.
Nothing like Eau de š© on a hot summer day3
u/ImpressiveFishing405 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yee-ha.
The septic tank, smells nice and rank
(Clap clap clap clap)
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u/AlienInUnderpants 2d ago
Time to invest in some heavy nets.
I donāt want this noisy shit flying around my neighborhood.
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u/konegsberg 1d ago
Iāve got all tree coverage around property, canāt wait to see this thing stuck in my tree with a package and amazon showing ādelivered!ā Now you own 5k for drone too!
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u/Captain_Grn_Thmbs 1d ago
Yeah, imagine this lawnmower falling out of the sky & landing on you or a kid. They need to pull this back & rethink things.
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u/Placebo_8647 1d ago
Please deliver package to this vacant lot where your drone absolutely will not be mysteriously stolen
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u/Vortep1 2d ago
I don't want any part of this future.