ImmersiveAmbientModecolor: #f69410 (color 1)
Video Format : 22 (720p) openh264 ( https://github.com/cisco/openh264) mp4a.40.2 | 44100Hz
Audio Format: Opus - Normalized audio
PokeTubeEncryptID: b8d01d8dc9454d72a559687336a9109153e7492e120bf496b1e7695bf01e053c69cf308c3de192a5e6efd677ed94eb3d
Proxy : eu-proxy.poketube.fun - refresh the page to change the proxy location
Date : 1715574537589 - unknown on Apple WebKit
Mystery text : Si1NOThLTGdhVVUgaSAgbG92ICB1IGV1LXByb3h5LnBva2V0dWJlLmZ1bg==
143 : true
2,680,035 Views ā¢ Feb 8, 2022 ā¢ Click to toggle off description
Watch our new feature-length documentary--the Colorado Problem: nebula.app/videos/wendover-the-colorado-problem-a-ā¦
Watch Extremities at youtube.com/extremities
Buy a Wendover Productions t-shirt: standard.tv/collections/wendover-productions/produā¦
Subscribe to Half as Interesting (The other channel from Wendover Productions): youtube.com/halfasinteresting
Youtube: Ā Ā Ā /Ā wendoverproductionsĀ Ā
Instagram: Instagram.com/sam.from.wendover
Twitter: www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro
Sponsorship Enquiries: wendover@standard.tv
Other emails: sam@wendover.productions
Reddit: Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductions
Writing by Sam Denby
Editing by Alexander Williard
Animation by Josh Sherrington
Sound by Graham Haerther
Thumbnail by Simon Buckmaster
Select footage courtesy Getty and AP; Select imagery courtesy Geolayers; Select music courtesy Epidemic sound
Views : 2,680,035
Genre: Education
Date of upload: Feb 8, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.929 (1,285/70,970 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-13T04:28:37.001624Z
See in json
YouTube Comments - 5,477 Comments
Top Comments of this video!! :3
Ah - I remember being a part of a team (back in 2017) who were building a drone to deliver medicines in the remote hilly regions of Nepal where automobile transportation has not reached yet. We even did a test flight and were successful to deliver (drop) medicine upto a 1 mile range. It was mere a test and the project never took off after the test flight.
2.7K |
Google were doing all sorts of drone delivery experiments in Australia (project Wing) and they claimed to be the first drone delivery service years ago. But the aviation authority set in place a 10KM restricted radius for these styles of delivery services. That limited them to just delivering Coffee, food, drugs with a hefty extra price attached. Another company achieved a 60km radius of delivery but that was due to the remote location it operated in. In the end the problem is getting past airspace restrictions and working in crowded cities as you point out. The idea is a total dead duck now. RIP drone delivery
520 |
drone delivery is really great for things like delivering very important things in areas where it's hard to, or quickly delivering supplies to hospitals, but it can't really help the consumer directly like that. it's really great for helping niche situations and that's all it is.
178 |
Looking forward to the sequel when WP talks about the fall of the metaverse
4.2K |
Delivery drones are a little bit like flying cars.
Solving most problems by shooting them up in the air doesn't work, because being airborne adds its own problems.
1.2K |
I never thought for one minute drone delivery would ever become a viable, secure, reliable, crime-and-injury avoidant solution.
52 |
I thought we were going to have home drone pads (like a 4x4 padded, orange platform in an aerially clear area around the yard or driveway, that would have its own pad address you could enter and transmitter to help the drone find it.) And you could easily have a few community pads on the roof or whatever of apartment buildings, and could fence these off in yards if needed for dogs, etc.
Seems like that would help with the ālast mileā problem, but there must be some other problem with that (including that people would need to buy a drone pad.)
38 |
Could you imagine the noise pollution with a thousand drones just flying about town all day? Man, it would be an absolute nightmare.
3.9K |
As a drone pilot, I've always found the idea of delivering packages to people's front porch was fraught with serious problems. Most homes don't have a suitable place to deliver to, unless you want it on your lawn, getting hit by your sprinklers. Never mind the battery life and limited payload of drones the size that could fit into neighborhoods.
471 |
I was recently layed off from a very promising drone delivery company focused on medical deliveries. There is a lot of charlatans out there and I feel like everyone thinks they have the one big idea that no nobody thought of.
It's mostly frustrating being around some of the frontrunners in the industry and to be shunned for pointing out realistic challenges and non sexy solutions.
Oh well! The fact is, whoever does create a successful system will be purchased by someone like Amazon once the bugs are worked out.
44 |
It was a fundamentally flawed idea. Wind, rain, snow, birds, and thieves exist.
5 |
As a skeptic and drone enthusiast, I asked someone with a slightly inside view why Amazon released that one teaser video when the technology wouldn't be there for a long long time (if ever). He hypothesized that Amazon pushed hard on the drone thing to distract the media from some negative press that was floating around at the time. I don't think anyone ever thought this would really happen, just like the metaverse won't happen... it's just a distraction.
1.1K |
I still remember when that was announced as the future, and I wondered what would come first: large scale drone theft, or lawsuit from people injured after a package or a faulty drone fell on their heads. Funny to see the problems this "future" was facing were even more mundane.
764 |
I work for a drone (not delivery) company. In America, and many other countries, there's yet another complication that you didn't touch on: Drones are not legally allowed to fly beyond line-of-site of their human operator. Zipline works in Rwanda and other African countries because the laws are far more lax there, and their US operations are highly situational, but it's currently impossible for large scale far-reaching BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line-Of-Sight) operations within the US, especially ones that require flights over humans like what drone delivery requires.
The regulations governing this can be found in FAR Part 107, but it's a rather dry read so I recommend looking at commercial drone operator study guides to get the gist of things.
It IS possible to get waivers to these regulations, but it's not easy, and it's highly situational. Currently, even the big players are only getting location-based waivers for BVLOS flights: "You an fly up to 3 miles in this specific location, with visual observer crew members placed at these predescribed points." And to get such waivers, you have to elaborate on contingencies for every possible failure the system or operation could have and how you plan to deal with it, as well as whatever safety features your drone has on board. A big one they like to see is DAA (Detect And Avoid) systems to prevent collisions with other aircraft.
There absolutely ARE industries where drones can do it better. Zipline is a great example of this. Other industries that use light aircraft and helicopters can also be done with drones for potential pennies on the dollar, big ones are infrastructure inspections, search and rescue, law enforcement/surveillance, and aerial survey/mapping. The tech is actually very close to being ready for much more, but we are still in a legal proof of concept phase, because the FAA has quite the stick up their own rear about safety.
I don't really see a bright future for drone delivery the way amazon and co wanted to do it. It's a tech-forward "solution" to a problem that is hardly a problem at all, and is so full of holes itself that the percentage of the population it could actually be used for is staggeringly low.
7 |
absolutely fabulous video, good job wendover productions
fantastic structure, fantastic narrator, and exctracts a bigger lesson from the topic
|
As a person who worked on the drones I can tell you this.
The complexity of it was under estimated. Amazon focuses too much on its cognitive dissonance rather than solving problems.
586 |
"Managers given no direction" sounds like the Amazon I worked for years ago. It's insane to think about how much just my building depended on motivated self starters and it seemed like the whole company survived on it. 30 derps in a department and maybe 5 of them do enough work to carry the others with managers staring at the labor hour cell on their spread sheet, oblivious to anything else going on.
907 |
Probably not an option for the US suburbs, but works just fine for densely populated areas: delivery pick-up sites. I have 4 sites from different marketplaces within 10 minutes walk from me, and I live on the outskirts of my town.
This is so much more easy and convenient than to door delivery. I don't have to be waiting for delivery at home for hours. Waiting for their calls, confirming that I'm avaiable, listening to their 'sorry, I'm going to be late', etc, etc. I don't have to wait for 5 separate deliveries if I ended up ordering stuff from 5 different shops. I don't have to worry that someone is going to steal my delivery because it was left outside. I just walk 10 minutes and get my stuff.
So in densely populated areas the solution to the last mile delivery problem seems to be: no delivery. Just make the pick up sites available and convenient.
3 |
@neeneko
2 years ago
Another rather critical reason zipline was able to do well : they didn't just find an application, they specifically found an application where something similar to drones was being used : small planes. Drones are ideal for situations where the economics of supporting a bush pilot do not work out.
2.7K |