• Buckshot@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, humans regularly deliver stuff wrong on our street. There is no way robots will manage. I get packages for both by neighbours and they get mine more often than correct deliveries and one of my neighbours is a business.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 hours ago

      Stop redirecting them. Make it cost them.

      Tell your neighbors to file an “it arrived late” or “it didn’t arrive” complaint. Get two and send one back. Their fault for being shit companies.

      If something is delivered to you by mistake, it’s not your responsibility to fix the mistake, you just got free stuff.

      If it goes through USPS, it might be a federal offense to open stuff delivered via USPS, but is that true of third party parcel delivery? Almost certainly not, because USPS is a government org and those third party shit delivery companies aren’t…

      So now any package that’s delivered to me by anyone other than USPS… it’s mine now, and I open it to see if I want whatever trash my neighbors are buying.

      I used to try to fix the problem… but then I realized it’s NOT MY PROBLEM.

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      1 day ago

      At my old workplace we ended up getting like a thousand toilet seats delivered to us. We were a web publishing firm.

    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      What makes you think you can’t have individualized instructions for harder to reach addresses? After the first failure it’s pretty trivial to go out and fix it. Google does far more work maintaining maps and directions services.

      Vs having a new delivery guy get confused every other week?

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      24 hours ago

      What you just described is humans causing the issue, drone delivery would absolutely solve your problem.

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        16 hours ago

        Even as pitched, you still have to print out a QR code and staple it to your front lawn for every package. Presumably, they want you to be home for it since it’s dropped out in the open and might bounce into the street.

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          Amazon’s drone delivery is trash, you’re correct. But eventually it will be significantly better than humans, input gps location and the product will be at that exact location give or take 1 foot

          Take a look at ziplines upcoming drone delivery service for instance, it will be significantly better than Amazon’s and will be way better than a human delivery driver.

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            5 hours ago

            eventually

            It’s been ten fucking years. They are one of the top five companies in the world. What are we waiting for here?

            All of the investors that originally paid into the idea have already made their money. There is no reason to continue the project.

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        21 hours ago

        The drone’s only as good as its software, the map it’s using, and the address data it’s given. All of which were created by fallible humans.

        Ain’t it fun having turtles all the way down?

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          7 hours ago

          43.9454776, -123.5393014

          ^ no address, GPS is very very precise.

      • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
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        22 hours ago

        Down voted for the obvious observation. A drone just needs to get explicit instructions ones a report is filled and it won’t be an issue. Google does more work on Google maps IMO.