{"id":63136,"date":"2016-12-15T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/?p=63136"},"modified":"2016-12-15T09:05:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:05:18","slug":"amazon-prime-air-delivery-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/amazon-prime-air-delivery-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime Air First Delivery is a Success (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has been toying on the idea of Air Delivery for years. <a href=\"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/02\/amazon-prime-air-uses-drones-for-fast-delivery-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">In 2013, they demonstrated the idea of air delivery<\/a> of their products and in December 2016, they finally make it official (in England). Check out Amazon Prime Air Delivery first attempt on a real customer.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"63140\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/amazon-prime-air-delivery-success\/amazon-prime-air_private-trial_ground-high-res\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Amazon-Prime-Air_Private-Trial_Ground-HIGH-RES.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"amazon-prime-air_private-trial_ground-high-res\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Amazon-Prime-Air_Private-Trial_Ground-HIGH-RES.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Amazon-Prime-Air_Private-Trial_Ground-HIGH-RES.jpg?fit=600%2C400&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63140\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Amazon-Prime-Air_Private-Trial_Ground-HIGH-RES.jpg?resize=600%2C400\" alt=\"amazon-prime-air_private-trial_ground-high-res\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Amazon-Prime-Air_Private-Trial_Ground-HIGH-RES.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Amazon-Prime-Air_Private-Trial_Ground-HIGH-RES.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIt is amazing that the process is almost automated. From customer&#8217;s order to the activation of the drone service, there are minimum human contact. Check out the first delivery. Awesome.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vNySOrI2Ny8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Comparing the drone in 2013 and in 2016, they have made it safer and larger. Seems like the drone&#8217;s blades are well protected should anyone goes near it. I like that the drone can just drop off the goods at designated location and fly off without human intervention.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/primeair\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Check Out Amazon Prime Air<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>However, even if it looks safe, I doubt this can work in Singapore given that population density is so high, and there are so many more considerations (tall buildings and etc) to automate this process.<\/p>\n<p>The closest that we get is a <a href=\"http:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/08\/singpost-drone-delivered-mail-and-package\/\" target=\"_blank\">trial by SingPost<\/a> that flew a drone to Palau Ubin to drop off a parcel last year.<\/p>\n<p>[ad#img]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has been toying the idea of Air Delivery. In 2013, they demonstrated the idea of air delivery and in December 2016, they finally make Prime Air official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2465,1509,14,3],"tags":[524,11871,7199,2975,15942,4357,11872],"class_list":["post-63136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drone","category-featured","category-techie","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-prime","tag-automation","tag-delivery","tag-drone","tag-featured-2","tag-prime-air"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Amazon-Prime-Air_Private-Trial_Ground-HIGH-RES.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8YKZ-gqk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63141,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63136\/revisions\/63141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techielobang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}