<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>Thanks everyone for the great discussion. I think if anyone is going to make this happen, it will be a Bezos or an Elon Musk, although a bit small for Musk `,~)</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 for one do not discount Bezos statement. Anyone that can go from selling books online to also being the largest Computer Cloud Rental service has what it takes to give this a go. I have seen an article
that tried to claim this was a mere publicity stunt, but I doubt Bezos would take that route, although I think what better time to drive hype than now, so definitely timed properly.</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>All of us understand the technological hurdles, which by themselves are significant, but at this stage I think we can all agree the solution is possible, albeit limited until Li-Air or something better than our current battery technology adds distance, this would be a significant hurdle. </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>The public response is somewhat unpredictable, but considering the FAA has already planned for drone traffic on a VERY real basis, I find it amazingly interesting. Whether the public wants to fear for Gov. intrusion and Bezos is just another hidden NSA collaborator, or we have a new class of lawyers chasing drones instead of ambulances is all up for grabs. I personally think people would love the quick response, but fear a falling sky. Neo-chicken littles. And why not? Who wants 6 pounds of package falling on their head.</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 with Pete that I am not holding my breath. You can have a great idea and you can truly want it to happen and then completely fail to make it happen come implementation time for various reasons we all have discussed.</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 have a watchful eye on this new area of commerce. The Drone Era!</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>Thanks Everyone,</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>John Vaughters</span></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 4:50 PM, Pete Soper <pete@soper.us> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv0659409315"><div>
<div class="yiv0659409315moz-cite-prefix">I would start by adding "<i>wants"</i>
to the subject line. :-) It's sickening but true that a fraction
of folks will read your wording and assume this is going to happen
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I have no doubt at all that some huge improvement in delivery
methods is coming, and it might involve drones. But I'm not going
to hold my breath waiting for this particular solution in the
short term. People in most of the world are <b>fearful</b> and
quadcopters with exposed blades buzzing around goes beyond my
imagination if I factor in human nature and recent history. But if
I pretend that the entire world is populated by Jeff Bezos clones
then OK. And I could imagine lots of simple homing devices that
you get from Amazon and stick in the exact spot you want your
delivery vehicle to leave your package. They would of course also
offer you seventeen flavors of annunciator, delivery within the
time window of your choice, etc for "reasonable" (tolerable)
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for problems may make it impossible. Injury Lawsuits, Theft of
packages or even drones, really too many issues to even
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