<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Rodney and Charles,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I agree that it makes sense and the solutions that could make it possible to reduce the theft could also include a special mailbox that allows a delivery to be dropped into and locked, maybe on the roof of the house and then shuttled down to the couch so you never have to even get up `,~).</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Also, there is plenty of room in the 3-dimensional air, so regulated sky highways over rooftops, drainage areas and other right of ways would significantly cut down on accidents. We could utilize cell communication for position location and a local and shared radio system by all drones to create an open network for mesh networking as a back up. People could sign up to allow their wifi to be available with a secured methodology that is completely independent to your house network. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">For the power, we just need to get the infamous Li-Air battery working and this will help quite a bit, but until then they could set up charging stations along the way that allows them to land and get a charge big enough to get home. Alternate solution would be to set up an automated battery replacement station. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Any other ideas?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">John Vaughters</div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, December 2, 2013 10:16 AM, Rodney Radford
<ncgadgetry@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8181844348"><div><div dir="ltr">I don't see theft of packages as an issue - packages can already be stolen from doorsteps, mailboxes, etc - a drone is not going to make that any worse.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Theft of the drone would be more problematic, but if it is really on the ground for a very short time, it would be difficult to get - add in video of your thief, and the risk/reward ratio doesn't make it worth it.</div>
<div><br clear="none"></div><div>And there are already crashes based on fedex, ups, etc and other vehicles hauling packages, stopping, etc - so while I can definitely see the headlines you quoted as possible (as the media loves that sort of thing), I don't see it being any higher.</div>
<div><br clear="none"></div><div>My concern would be flight control of so many, from so many different companies, in the sky at the same time. There would need to be a way of tracking each one, similar to what we do with airplanes now, but it would be based on the drones sending out GPS coordinates as they are too small to be picked up on a radar. </div>
<div><br clear="none"></div><div>The big issue is that they are not cost effective for wide areas as the battery life is not very good. I do agree that in a last mile sort of arrangement, they would be good - truck pulls up to a heavily congested area where parking is a pain and deploys a dozen or so drones for the package. But that is way different than the video shows it going from stock room to the person's house in 30 mins (unless you just happen to live within a few miles of the stockroom).</div>
</div><div class="yiv8181844348gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv8181844348gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:48 AM, John Vaughters <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jvaughters04@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:jvaughters04@yahoo.com">jvaughters04@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
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I can think of no better group than this to ask for thoughts.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
My Thoughts:</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
Crazy but possible, however, potential for problems may make it impossible. Injury Lawsuits, Theft of
packages or even drones, really too many issues to even mention.</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
<br clear="none"></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">Headline: Drone causes car crash, 8 dead</div>
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Anyone else care to comment?</div><span class="yiv8181844348HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; background-color: transparent; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;">
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