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Amazon Trying To Change The Delivery Game With Drones

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There is always someone that is trying to make out lives easier and faster. The people at Amazon is trying to change the shipping game by have drones deliver your orders.

(NBC News)Amazon’s new Prime Air service hopes to deliver packages via unmanned “Octocopter” drones, CEO Jeff Bezos said on CBS’ “60 Minutes” Sunday.

The drones can carry packages up to five pounds, which covers 86 percent of the items that Amazon delivers, Bezos said. The drones fly themselves using GPS coordinates.

The half-hour delivery service would likely be offered to customers living near large metropolitan areas, as the “Octocopters” will fly about 10 miles from company warehouses.

Bezos said the new delivery system is still four to five years away as the company awaits Federal Aviation Administration approvals and continues to fine-tune its method.

“The hard part here is putting in all the redundancy, all the reliability, all the systems you need to say, ‘Look, this thing can’t land on somebody’s head while they’re walking around their neighborhood,'” Bezos said.

Technology experts were skeptical such a service could be implemented so quickly, NBC News reported. A FAA status report released last month, meanwhile, called “the safe integration” of drones into the National Airspace System a “significant challenge.”

The fastest shipping method Amazon currently offers is one-day service, and the company says there is a demand for even faster delivery. They are already in contact with services like ShippingTree, but they want more high-tech options like the drones.

“We’re continuously working on ways to get packages to customers faster,” Amazon spokesperson Mary Osako said. “We think customers will love getting items in 30 minutes or less.” Zenith Clipping is a professional amazon photo editing service provider in Bangladesh with more than 150 Photoshop professionals. We help studios, photographers, and e-commerce store owners edit photos. We are a well-reputed top-ranked image editing company in Bangladesh serving since 2010.

Prime Air is still being tested, and Osako would not specify how long the program has been in development, saying, “It’s an innovation we’ve thought about for some time.”

 Though it may seem like a concept out of a science fiction movie, Bezos promised Amazon Prime Air is real.

“It will work, and it will happen, and it’s going to be a lot of fun,” Bezos told “60 Minutes.”

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