Using drones to deliver goods to your door has not yet reached the mainstream, but it seems inevitable that one day it will. “It’s a faster, safer and more environmentally friendly method of delivery,” says Alexa Dennet, a spokesperson for tech company Wing. “Drones will be commonplace in the future.” She claims. Wing, a sister-company of Google, is already making drone deliveries under limited and highly regulated conditions in Helsinki, Canberra and Virginia. Wing isn’t the only company making progress on drone delivery either; both Amazon Prime Air and logistics company UPS are working on their own systems.
There are a number of benefits to using drones for delivery, including faster delivery times and less reliance on infrastructure such as roads and railways etc. However, the greatest benefit is that replacing traditional delivery vehicles with drones, we will vastly reduce carbon emissions. There’s still quite a way to go until your Domino’s Pizza order is flying through the sky to your front door though. There are many technological and economic barriers, and of course, public safety and air safety will be the main obstacle overcome in order for drone delivery to become the norm.
