Amazon wants to grow its Prime Air delivery drone service sixfold to reach nearly 500 cities and towns across the United States by the end of 2026. The planned expansions from Amazon and its rivals could make the convenience of delivery drone services available to tens of millions more people in the coming months—but will also test more communities’ tolerance for increased noise from daily drone flights.

On August 19, Amazon announced it would soon launch Prime Air in the metropolitan areas of Chicago; Cleveland; Atlanta; Syracuse, New York; and Boise, Idaho, with more to come later in the year. Each Prime Air site offers delivery drone service within an area of about 175 square miles, with delivery times ranging from half an hour to an hour.

Prime Air already operates out of Amazon warehouses in 10 cities across seven states. Those include primarily suburban neighborhoods of Phoenix; Tampa; Kansas City; Omaha, Nebraska; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Detroit; Houston; and San Antonio, Dallas, and Waco, Texas.

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[–] 7 points 2 months ago*

Definitely going to be used for surveillance

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    How does Amazon think this is going to end? Have they SEEN a "Welcome to [city name in south]" sign? They are nearly always full of bullet holes. Heard of skeet shooting???

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    am i sleep deprived or does the headline say a completely different thing than the actual body of the article? surely neighbourhoods and cities are not the same thing???

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    [–] 36 points 2 months ago

    I can't see a future where Americans don't shoot these down

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    What i haven’t seen clearly stated is what altitude are these going to fly at? One article I saw said that Amazon were trying to prohibit all drone flights between 200-400 feet AGL and reserve that solely for Amazon. Thats a huge chunk of airspace taken away from other drone users if so. It was an older article so curious what became of it. I guess one thing is clear, we are in for a noisy future.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It used to be that airplanes had to keep 1000 feet of altitude over residential areas. A drone with its camera can come right up to your front door? Fly over your home, take pictures of your yard?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Amazon drone now w Flock inside!!

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    That's what all the data centers are for. Every sensor in the world will be wired into the hydra; funneling all its data into mass surveillance algorithms so the fascist oligarchs can determine who is a naughty antifascist, and who is a nice brainwashed pawn or pedophile. Those who are naughty will have these systems weaponised against them. They will lose employment. They will be continuously harassed by law enforcement. They will be blacklisted by grocery stores and other vital services. Eventually, they will meet their fate with the data-center controlled, fully-autonomous killbots.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Low level anti-aircraft system design sounds like a fun engineering hobby

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    That’s what they say, but what I hear is “free drone with every delivery.”

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    And they fly only over streets or also over your backyard?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Can you imagine the noise of thousands of these things in the air at any given time? Fuck off bezos

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    If amazon sends your package via drone and I see it, there's a high chance you aren't getting your package. Why are you still ordering from amazon

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  • I remember when I thought this bullshit was merely reckless.

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