The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream

[Chuckinay]

"Well over 100 employees at Amazon Prime Air have lost their jobs and dozens of other roles are moving to other projects abroad as the company shutters part of its operation in the UK ..."

The slow collapse of Amazon’s drone delivery dream

Amazon has triggered mass redundancies and transfers as it winds down a huge part of its UK drone delivery business

www.wired.co.uk

 

[iReviewFrozenDinners]

Good.

 

[Higher Attitudes]

Sounds like from the article it was more a matter of corporate mismanagement than real issues with the tech or the idea of drone deliveries. I mean when you are hired data analytics folks through temp agencies and your managers have no understanding of UAV tech, what do you expect? Even the most promising program would fail with these handicaps.

It will be interesting to see what happens here. I noticed that WalMart has an executive speaking at this year's Commercial UAV Expo in Vegas. I don't think drone deliveries are going away just because Amazon UK tripped over their own shoelaces

 

[Fred Garvin]

Cart before the horse.

A solution in search of a problem.