Both Christensen and Jaska worked closely with the owners of the bowling alley in order to come up with the concept to help showcase the bowling alley business. The short film was created by Jay Christensen, an aerial cinematographer, and director, Anthony Jaska. Plus, the street where it is located, Lake Street, was the site of some local protests following the death of George Floyd. The entire point of the video was to help the local business gain some attention and promote themselves, especially since they’ve had to deal with the COVID-19 lockdown. She said to the Minnesota Public Radio, “I can vouch that it’s 100% real. While some people might think the footage is not real, the bartender for Bryant Lake Bowl, Farrah Donovan, shared that it’s actually all real. What makes this footage of the lanes so incredible, is the fact that all of it was filmed during one single, uninterrupted shoot. The vintage bowling alley is located in Minneapolis. The footage is a short, minute-and-a-half video taken by a drone flying around Bryant Lake Bowl. The video, “Right Up Our Alley,” has already gained 2 million views on YouTube. We hardly think of a bowling alley as being riveting, but as one YouTube video shows, it’s quite extraordinary. The Prime customer issues a signal and the drone lands or lowers the item by rope from 50 feet in the air.Įven this remarkable scenario does not work for downtown Chicago where there is an enormous amount of walking traffic and no place to land, and lowering a package onto a crowded street is problematic.Ĭities dominated by apartments are not behive ready.When we think of incredible drone footage, we probably think of sweeping landscapes or close calls.
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The drone knows the code of the device and can distinguish that person from other random persons on a busy sidewalk. They schedule the delivery somewhere on the street at a specified time.
However, I am having difficulty envisioning thousands of drones buzzing around Chicago, making deliveries to the 75th floor of an apartment or to the first floor of any busy neighborhood street with hundreds of people milling about and no place to land.Ĭity dwellers with Prime service are given a device that emits a signal. The beehive concept could potentially work in cities or suburbs dominated by single-family detached homes, assuming the FAA will allow such deliveries. I fail to see why a patent was even granted for this concept.Ī patent for flying drones out a building? What’s not inherently obvious about that?
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The trial was open to two customers in the UK who have huge gardens, live close to an Amazon depot and want items that weigh less than 2.6kg (5.7 pounds). Last December, the Guardian reported Amazon claims first successful Prime Air drone delivery. The drone centers could also have a “central command” to control flight operations, which would be similar to a flight controller at an airport, Amazon said.”
The centers could be used to fulfill hundreds of thousands of orders a day, in part relying on a large volume of drones that continually pick up deliveries and can recharge their batteries at the site. The application filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, which was written in 2015 and published last week, included a number of drawings of drones flying in and out of tall cylinder-shaped buildings that Amazon wants to locate in central metropolitan areas. The company has filed for a patent for so-called “multi-level fulfillment centers” that would accommodate the landing and takeoff of drones in dense urban settings, the latest example of Amazon’s futuristic vision of reshaping the way people receive packages. “If Amazon has its way, cities around the US will have vertical drone centers shaped like giant beehives in the middle of downtown districts, allowing the online retailer to coordinate speedy deliveries by unmanned aircrafts. Amazon’s patented solution is multi-story, drone-delivery behive center warehouses smack in the middle of major cities.
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