{"id":18899,"date":"2013-12-03T10:09:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T08:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18899"},"modified":"2013-12-03T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T08:09:24","slug":"amazon-package-delivering-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/03\/amazon-package-delivering-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon package delivering drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Holy crap! This is just crazy! \u00a0Amazon is working on a project to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/12\/1\/5164340\/delivery-drones-are-coming-jeff-bezos-previews-half-hour-shipping\">drones for ultra fast package delivery<\/a> (2.5 kg in less then half an hour):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He says we&#8217;re four or five years from drones being able to deliver small packages right to your house, largely because the company has to work with the FAA to make sure it&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/4\/4\/4180620\/faa-drone-privacy-policy-under-fire-in-call-for-public-comment\">legally allowed<\/a>\u00a0to run the Prime Air program \u2014 Amazon doesn&#8217;t have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/10\/15\/4840706\/zookal-will-deliver-textbooks-with-drones-in-australia\">Zookal&#8217;s luxury<\/a>\u00a0of operating in Australia without the FAA&#8217;s regulatory oversight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I always regarded Amazon as an innovative company &#8211; but this is in a category by itself. \u00a0Welcome to the future, once again.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Holy crap! This is just crazy! \u00a0Amazon is working on a project to use drones for ultra fast package delivery (2.5 kg in less then half an hour): He says we&#8217;re four or five years from drones being able to deliver small packages right to your house, largely because the company has to work with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/03\/amazon-package-delivering-drones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amazon package delivering drones<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[42,3245],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-drones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7563,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/10\/amazon-package-is-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":18899,"position":0},"title":"Amazon package is here","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 10, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally, my order arrived from Amazon. 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