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Amazonのドローン配送サービスに関する問題が報告されています。ニューヨーク・ポストによると、自動配達機は10フィートの高さから荷物を降下しており、これにより箱の中身が破損する可能性があります。テマラ・ハンコックさんが撮影したビデオでは、ドローンによる配送でトアニフレーバーサイロップが割れてしまった例が示されています。
また、ドローンのプロペラが他の配達品を吹き飛ばして道路に投げ出したこともありました。Amazonは「AI充満した機群」であり、「センスアンドエビード」という最先端技術を持つため、最大5ポンドまでの荷物を60分以内に指定エリアに配送する能力がありますが、高所からの落下により配達品の破損が問題となっています。
Amazonはこの問題について「稀な事例ではありますが、期待通りの届けが得られなかったことをお詫びします」と述べています。ドローンは2024年末から運用されており、アリゾナ、フロリダ、ミシガンなどでの超速送配を提供しています。
このドローンは非常に大きいため、近隣住民からは騒音に関する懸念も出ていると言います。
There's been a few complaints about Amazon's drone delivery service. "The automated mailmen are dropping off packages from 10 feet in the air," reports the New York Post, "rendering the contents of each box susceptible to crashing and smashing."
One example? Tamara Hancock filmed a drone delivering a bottle of Torani flavoring syrup to her home in Arizona (as a test of how Amazon handled fragile items). It was delivered it in a plastic bottle — not glass — but the massive drone drops the drone from so high that the impact cracked the bottle's cap. (In the video Hancock opens her delivery to find leaked flavoring syrup "everywhere.")
The delivery was hard to film, Hancock says, because "If the drone sees me in the back yard, it will not drop, because it is worried about hurting humans or animals." The Post notes Amazon's "AI-charged fleet" of drones are "Outfitted with industry-leading 'sense and avoid' technology, the aerodynamic machines are equipped to drop off eligible items, weighing a maximum of five pounds, at designated areas in 60 minutes or less."
The high-tech, however, apparently does not ensure gentle landings. Collisions, including a recent crash-and-burn into a Texas building, as well as several mid-flight malfunctions in rainy weather, have abounded since the drones' inaugural launch....
Tasha, a separate Amazon user, spotted the drone plunging a package near the paved driveway of a neighbor's yard. Unfortunately, its propellers caused other, previously delivered parcels to blow away, sending one into the street... In a statement to The Post, Amazon said it apologized for one of the "rare instances when products don't arrive as expected."
Amazon's drone fleet has been running since late 2024, the Post adds, and are now offering "ultra-fast" shipping in U.S. states including Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Kansas and Texas.
The machines do seem massive. I'm surprised neighbors aren't complaining about the noise...
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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