While the first delivery by a drone in the UK was successful and 7-Eleven has completed a full month of drone deliveries in the US, the whole process is still in development, both legally and technologically.
Not all patents are seen through to reality, but should the plan of Amazon materializes, people might have just had their first peek at the future of retail.
Analysts believe that the reason why the idea would encounter rough sailing is not because of regulations or regulators getting in the way but actually the cost of maintaining airship on the cloud on a daily or weekly basis.
Just the cost of keeping something on the air would already make Amazon think twice of its plans.
That’s aside from the idea that the airborne fulfillment centers and the flying warehouse would be so huge and if it floats above a certain place, people below would surely be worried sick that a giant edifice looms high above them.
It would be similar to seeing the proverbial sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. For sure, people would be up in arms whenever the mother airship hovers over their place and that would force the airship to position itself above places where the population is minimal, and therefore, the delivery would surely take time.