Tryouts are underway of pairing up autonomous drones with self-driving driverless cars
In theory, you also can cut down on the chances of human error, such as the operator of the drone getting careless and flying the drone to the wrong place, or the human driver in the car having fallen asleep doesn’t awaken once the food has been delivered to the car. Autonomy, once properly established, would do away with those qualms, though of course introduces other aspects such as the need to keep the autonomous systems up-to-date and monitored.
You could have the drone land in the backyard or front yard of a home, which many are experimenting with, but this is a dicey proposition since the yard might be cluttered and there isn’t a viable and safe spot to land on. Or, maybe the yard has a dog that isn’t going to favor a foreign craft that comes into the animal’s turf. Someone or something can get hurt by the landing drone.
Suppose the street involved has a beautiful canopy formed by lush trees on both sides of the street. Bad news for trying to land the drone. There might be power lines and telephone poles. Etc. As such, the autonomous car might go park itself in an empty parking lot, wait for the drone to arrive, have the drone land, and then proceed to the final destination.
You’ll need some pretty clever algorithms and routing software to figure this out. I make this point to emphasize that the autonomous drone and the autonomous car aren’t the only “systems” elements of this delivery process, and there needs to be the “glue” that aids the drone and car in coordinating their efforts. More AI to be had, I’d wager.
Would a moving driverless car that is being approached by a drone be somewhat startling to human drivers that might be in nearby cars? Imagine you are on the freeway, driving your car, and all of a sudden a drone swoops down from the clouds and lands on the autonomous car in front of you.
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