As customer expectations regarding shipping and delivery times get higher, the performance of manned couriers starts to bottleneck. Instant gratification has become a universal trend, and ecommerce industries that can use drones to ship and deliver their goods fast have a lot to gain.

It’s no wonder then that many large companies, like Amazon, have started experimenting with drone deliveries for quite a few years.

It seems like old news by now or something like a failed school science project, but the use of drones in the logistics sector is expected to increase the revenue in e-commerce by up to 25% in the next 10 years and save retailers more than $10 million in shipping costs.

And that’s just the beginning.

One of the main reasons drone delivery has been stagnating is current legislation and safety concerns. While Amazon and a few other companies like Alphabet (Google) have received permission from the FAA to test their drone projects with actual delivery packages, there is one caveat to take into account.

Currently, the FAA rules mention that even for commercial drone use, the drone has to stay in line of sight of the operator, so until special exceptions are made for these companies, drones won’t be able to be automatically flown by preprogrammed software.

Another issue is that of privacy and safety, considering these drones will swarm over people’s houses and that adds yet another layer of complexity to the legislation problem.

And as logistical issues go, drones struggle to find more challenging addresses as easily as humans, and dropping a package at your home might end up with broken deliveries and damaged drones.

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But if these hurdles will be overcome, how exactly are drones going to catch up and change the logistics sector of e-commerce?

While the infrastructure and current regulation have to be revised quite a bit, the use of drones for delivery is a solution that will be implemented at some point because having that new MacBook you were thinking about delivered in under 30 minutes sounds like a sweet, sweet deal.

Companies plan to have delivery places in local areas (for a start) where drones could safely land and drop your item in an enclosure that requires a code to open.

Since the route will ignore traffic and the drones fly straight, the time saved will be tremendous. Even more than that, each drone will have only one mission instead of delivering multiple packages before getting to your location.

One alternative solution is to use VTOL (vertical takeoff drones) that can take off like a quadcopter but fly like a plane to the location, so it can conservatively use its battery.

While we have primarily been focusing on Amazon, other fields would benefit even more from ultra-fast shipping.

Food delivery apps are booming, but their workers can be overworked and struggling, according to the NYtimes.

During the pandemic and while people are isolated at home, food drone delivery could become a solution to minimize human interaction and disease spreading.

Delivery on top of apartment buildings in specially designated areas could be a great solution to standard courier shipping. It could also be that novelty factor that would make one company stand out from another.

Domino’s pizza wants to use their proprietary drone called the DomiCopter to deliver hot pizza at rush hours without the risk of it getting cold. The devices delivering food would have to be waterproof drones and could even keep food warm.

Of course, we all know that every minute of delay counts when we’re hungry, so the first delivery company to adopt this will see a massive surge in popularity.

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