SteveMann said:
But they won't be flying to the home, they will be flying from a central warehouse to a neighborhood hub where they have control of both ends of the flight. Then a ground-based courier will hand deliver the last mile while the hub sends the drone back to the warehouse.
I'm not sure where you got this idea, but its probably the worst one I've read.
Even if battery cap. doubled in those 10 years, you could in theory either carry approx. double the weight or fly 5 miles back and forth twice (today's big drones can't even go 2x5mi), in regards to distance.
And then there's this courier just sitting there, waiting for the drone and delivering the last mile? Getting payed? Driving those packages in a car?
Over here we already have same day delivery by van, only drawback is you have to order by 10am. An those guys
wish they only had to travel 5 miles or even 10 miles + a 1 mile radius. 10 miles even in horrid traffic is maybe 45 minutes.
It would make so much more sense if they just used small electric vans filled with dozens of those lightweight deliveries.
