Domino’s Pizza testing pizza-delivering drones

[Happy Panther]

Apparently this is not a hoax

 

 

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/06/04/dominos-pizza-is-testing-pizza-delivery-drones/

 

 

[Porn Shop Clerk]

so...if you shoot one down you get a free pizza?

 

hell yeah son

[CatofWar]

Steal that bitch when it gets to the address.

[PhillyB]

that'll be a lot of jobs cut if that's the case

[TruthVsComfort]

Drone Technology may grow exponentially. Similar to cell phones - and with serious implications. Lost jobs, and of course we are inching ever closer to Terminator/Matrix. lol

[Kurb]

Seems that liability would outweigh the benefits.

*shrug* pretty cool either way

[jasonluckydog]

the drone caries less then $20 in cash.

[CarolinaNCSU]

It's obviously cool, but things like this are just going too far IMO.  Too many potential issues, too many jobs being lost, weather will always be a factor, etc.

[C47]

so...if you shoot one down you get a free pizza?

 

hell yeah son

 

this would imply you would want to eat dominos pizza....

[Cary Kollins]

took our jurbs!

 

 

It's gonna be hilarious watching these things run into trees and power lines. 

[Porn Shop Clerk]

how many little kids are gonna lose fingers running out to meet the pizza drone?

[R0CKnR0LLA]

Oh look at the "job creators" hard at work trying to get rid of as many jobs as possible. From what I understand Domino's already pays their delivery drivers less than minimum wage, but I guess even that is too much.

 

I don't see this happening though. First, I don't see how it could possibly be 100% automated. As it says there, it's being piloted by someone on the ground. Domino's sure as hell wouldn't spend the buttload of money needed to buy a ton of these things just to then replace their drivers with drone pilots (which I'm guessing would be hard to find for the $4 or $5 an hour or whatever they pay). They could care less about delivering pizzas 2 minutes faster, they'd only do this if it allows them to cut half of their work force.

 

The other thing is weather. Rain, snow, heavy wind, ect. these things would be worthless. And that's when people order delivery food the most. That's a lot of business they'd lose to pizza joints across the street when they have to tell people, "sorry we can't deliver it's kinda windy out right now."

 

There's plenty of other issues with it as well. Kids running up and stealing the pizza or intentionally damaging the thing, not having places to land (or landing in a parking lot/street and having it get run over).

[stirs]

that'll be a lot of jobs cut if that's the case

Maybe they can get a job at the drone factory.

[Happy Panther]

Seems that liability would outweigh the benefits.

*shrug* pretty cool either way

 

Yeah I'm not sure even Lloyd's of London would touch the liability insurance on this one...