Categories: News

Amazon Prime Air: Amazon Drone For Deliveries Unveiled

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told 60 Minutes that the online store is currently developing a delivery by drone system, called Amazon Prime Air. The demo video released by Amazon shows the ‘octocopter,’ a small aircraft, flying a package in a yellow Amazon container into the air and right to a customer's front door step.

Amazon Prime Air: Amazon Drone Delivery

Though the technology won’t be ready for another few years at least, Bezos seems certain that the Amazon Prime Air delivery system will, one day, be normal. The goal of Prime Air would be to deliver packages to Amazon customers in 30 minutes or less. At this time, the drones can only carry up to five pounds – 86% of the products Amazon sells on their website.

The drones can only deliver an item in 30 minutes or less within a 10-mile radius of an Amazon fulfillment center.

Bezos insists that this new delivery system, an all-electric system, is more environment-friendly than delivery trucks, calling Prime Air “completely green.” It also appears that the drones will fly completely unregulated or unmanned in the sense that there is no need for a worker to direct the drone from a computer once it has been programmed with the delivery coordinates.

“I know this looks like science fiction. It’s not,” Bezos said while unveiling the project.

Amazon Prime Air: Will It Be Safe Safe?

Futuristic and unsettling as it may sound, Amazon assures the public that safety is its number one concern.

“Safety will be our top priority, and our vehicles will be built with multiple redundancies and designed to commercial aviation standards,” the company says.

Amazon might be a few years away from completing its Prime Air system, but even if the project were ready for launch in the next year, Amazon would still have to wait until 2015 to begin using a drone delivery system, when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is projected to release guidelines for commercial drone use. As to an exact date when Amazon will be prepared to launch Prime Air, Bezos remains optimistic that drones will be making Amazon deliveries within four to five years:

“Could it be four or five years? I think so. It will work, and it will happen and it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Olivia Truffaut-Wong

Get Uinterview's FREE iPhone App For Daily News Updates here.

Get the FREE Uinterview iPad app here and watch our videos anywhere.

More on Amazon:

James Franco Signs Book Deal With Amazon

Joy Covey, 50, Amazon's First CFO, Dies In A Bicycle Accident

uInterview

Recent Posts

Kid Rock Appears In Oval Office Wearing Red Rhinestone-Studded Suit After Trump Took Exception To Zelensky’s Informal Attire

Singer Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, appeared with President Donald Trump…

32 mins ago

VIDEO: Barack Obama Responds After Photobombing Family’s Cherry Blossom Pics – ‘My Bad!’

https://youtu.be/rClF_OLfxy8 A family taking photos in Washington, D.C., said they got a “family heirloom” picture…

3 hours ago

HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Mocks West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s Weight & Challenges Him To Do Public Weigh-Ins

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ridiculed Gov. Patrick Morrisey's (R-West…

5 hours ago

Director Sam Mendes Confirms Cast Of Four Beatles Biopics To Be Released In ‘Cinematic Event’

The Beatles have had many movies and documentaries made about them, but Mendes' project will…

7 hours ago

Elon Musk Questions Whether He’s Father Of Ashley St. Clair’s Child – But Says He’s Given Her $2.5M Anyway

Musk’s attorneys successfully petitioned the New York judge for a gag order against St. Clair,…

8 hours ago

‘Top Gun’ Star Val Kilmer Dies At 65 From Pneumonia After Decade-Long Battle With Throat Cancer

Val Kilmer, the versatile and intense actor known for his iconic roles in Top Gun,…

10 hours ago