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Amazon Prime Air to reach 500 US cities as packages land in pools and ponds
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Amazon's drone delivery service is expanding to 500 US cities, but a video shows a Prime Air drone dropping a package into a Texas pool, adding to a series of water-related incidents.
WHY IT MATTERS
For engineers, these systems, the difficulty of ensuring safe landing zones in uncontrolled environments is a key challenge. The expansion to 500 cities increases the risk of such incidents, and Amazon's checks do not cover water bodies.
Written by elseif from the cluster below · every claim links back to a sourceThe three things worth knowing
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Amazon Prime Air will expand its drone delivery service to 500 US cities.
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A video shows a Prime Air drone dropping a package directly into a Texas pool.
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Previous incidents include a drone blowing a package into a pool and a package bouncing into a pond.
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