{"id":7436,"date":"2016-04-04T07:52:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T14:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2016-04-04T07:52:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T14:52:58","slug":"amazon-seeks-patent-talking-drone-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-tech\/amazon-seeks-patent-talking-drone-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon seeks patent for a talking drone (“Watch out!”)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did I miss something or was it a slow day at the Patent Office? The Register<\/a> attempts to explain a patent that Amazon just filed for a so-called talking drone. Look, I\u2019m neither a scientist nor am I an engineer but this is one of those inventions that just seems to be screaming for someone like George Foreman to hawk on television.<\/p>\n

Silliness aside, let’s talk about the legitimate reasons for a patent of this nature, and what it means for drone delivery systems that Amazon is well known for looking to pioneer.<\/p>\n

<\/i> Read also: How to fly your drone without breaking the law or your face<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no wait…<\/h2>\n

One of the controversy\u2019s of AAV\u2019s is their use in populated areas. There\u2019s a privacy issue, there\u2019s a concern that low-flying UAV issue that potentially cause problems with everything from power lines to birds to antennas. So a drone that has the capacity to advise someone it\u2019s going to land is head scratcher for sure.<\/p>\n

Says the patent description, \u201cUpon approaching the location, the AAV determines that a person is situated at or near an intended or a suitable landing area corresponding to the delivery location… thereby causing the propeller to produce a series of sounds that are audibly perceptible as \u201cWatch out<\/strong>!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tests are only a year old<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s only been about a year since the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began granting permission for delivery drone test flights. The\u00a0FAA said\u00a0that Amazon in particular would be free to test its delivery drones in the United States, as long as Amazon flies the drones under 400 feet and at a maximum speed of 100 miles per hour.<\/p>\n

Here we are a year later, and Amazon\u2019s Prime Air service doesn\u2019t seem any closer to being realized. One of the roadblock\u2019s is the FAA\u2019s recently proposed rules<\/a> regarding commercial drone operations, including the requirement that drones stay within the operator\u2019s line- of-sight <\/em>at all times.<\/p>\n

The idea of a drone delivering – I don\u2019t know – beer<\/a> for example (a proposal that was shot down, btw) certainly has novel aspects. But will it fly? (Pardon the pun. Couldn\u2019t resist). That said, I\u2019m not immune to the possibilities of drone delivery. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s already being successfully used in Germany.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

LiveScience<\/a> reports that, \u201cGerman logistics company\u00a0DHL recently launched a new drone delivery service to get ‘urgently needed goods,’ such as life-saving medicines, to certain remote locations.\u201d The catch phrase here is \u201cremote locations\u201d and it seems to be working pretty efficiently without the need to tell people to \u201cWatch Out!\u201d<\/p>\n

Do we need sneaky drones? Sure, why not?<\/h2>\n

Which gets me back to this latest patent attempt: A silent drone that no one hears and then gives you a shout out upon approach (i.e. \u201cWatch Out\u201d) goes against the better logic of what the drone service is supposed to provide in the first place.<\/p>\n

But what do I know? The Wright brothers were laughed at also. Jokes aside, drone technology is not to be ignored – the rules and innovations for the devices are advancing extremely rapidly and have widespread implications. Stay tuned, and “Watch out!”<\/p>\n

#WatchOut<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As long as Amazon flies the drones under 400 feet and at a maximum speed of 100 miles per hour and stays within operator line-of-sight there shouldn\u2019t be any problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337420,"featured_media":5554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[638,581],"class_list":["post-7436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate-tech","tag-drone","tag-faa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/10\/drone-photography.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7439,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions\/7439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}