[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To Your Location



Easy Ordering On Your Smartphone
Just tap and let the machines do the rest.




http://tacocopter.com/

[AdTheNad]

if it makes me laugh out loud that usually makes me think it's a piss take. I mean I know fuel efficiency of vehicles is bad, but is it so bad that keeping a light vehicle airborne is cheaper?

Oil is clearly still far too cheap.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdTheNad', 'i')f it makes me laugh out loud that usually makes me think it's a piss take. I mean I know fuel efficiency of vehicles is bad, but is it so bad that keeping a light vehicle airborne is cheaper?

[rangerone314]

I love how some people think that in the future robots will do all the work and everyone will be living in a paradise. No, a handful of people will "own" the robots, and everyone else will starve while a handful of people have anything they want. Give or take energy and die off.

[Novus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdTheNad', 'i')f it makes me laugh out loud that usually makes me think it's a piss take. I mean I know fuel efficiency of vehicles is bad, but is it so bad that keeping a light vehicle airborne is cheaper?

Oil is clearly still far too cheap.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', '
')The Tacocopter likey represents an efficiency over driving there oneself in a 4000 pound automobile. A ten minute trip through traffic could be a 2 minute journey for the Tacocopter through the air. Additionally the Tacocopter could potentially combine trips and deliver to multiple people thus getting several cars off the road. Expect more of these types of services as gas becomes more expensive.

[EnergyUnlimited]

Once widely available, I bet some of these devices will be hacked to deliver grenade and some more clever versions will carry gun turret on board.
Some video capacity would be a very handy feature in latter version.

@Pstarr,
They could land in your garden, assuming you have any.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'O')nce widely available, I bet some of these devices will be hacked to deliver grenade and some more clever versions will carry gun turret on board.
Some video capacity would be a very handy feature in latter version.

@Pstarr,
They could land in your garden, assuming you have any.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'O')nce widely available, I bet some of these devices will be hacked to deliver grenade and some more clever versions will carry gun turret on board.
Some video capacity would be a very handy feature in latter version.

@Pstarr,
They could land in your garden, assuming you have any.

[AdTheNad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'O')nce widely available, I bet some of these devices will be hacked to deliver grenade and some more clever versions will carry gun turret on board.
Some video capacity would be a very handy feature in latter version.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdTheNad', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', 'O')nce widely available, I bet some of these devices will be hacked to deliver grenade and some more clever versions will carry gun turret on board.
Some video capacity would be a very handy feature in latter version.

[rangerone314]

I do wonder if certain government agencies aren't encouraging or funding this in order to get people acclimated to the idea of drones in their daily lives, to get people used to drones spying on them, etc. I think it is a warm up, just like searches in the airport are a warm up, for a police state.

[efarmer]

Now all we need is the Nancy Grace story:

"A tacocopter was lost on a mission over Dallas tonight. Of the six tacos aboard, only one survived,and the other five had to be identified from fragments. We have an exclusive interview with the father of the taco's and will be bringing this to you in the next hour. We also understand that at least 7 packets of El Scorcho hot sauce were strewn about the disaster area, but they all remained intact and will be removed by a tacocopter hazmat video drone ground crew who are right now rushing to the scene on GPS guided electric bicycles. We are happy to report the young man who ordered the tacocopter mission is dazed but OK with the exception of a sprained thumb from valiant and frantic operation of the touch screen on his smartphone as the disaster unfolded. When we spoke with him he said the shock had worn off and he was going to heat up a can of ravioli that was gifted to him by a concerned neighbor.

[Ibon]

Why don't we develop drones to manage our permaculture farms....you know let nature and drones do all the work so we can masterbate away the day on our computers?

[basil_hayden]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', 'W')hy don't we develop drones to manage our permaculture farms....you know let nature and drones do all the work so we can masterbate away the day on our computers?

[Poordogabone]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;Current U.S. FAA regulations prevent ... using UAVs [Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, like drones] for commercial purposes at the moment,"

[radon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')ncomfortably for F-35 proponents, UAS already combine all the elements of fifth-generation fighters but in a more economical form. BAE System's Taranis and Northrop Grumman's X-47 are highly stealthy, and the former is experimenting with drones that have no moveable surfaces at all, further reducing radar signatures.

UAS data fusion, meanwhile, happens on the ground among teams of pilots and operators who can specialize in specific flying, monitoring and combat functions. Without pilots, or the equipment they need to fight, breathe, eject, navigate, or fight, UAVs are smaller, lighter and cheaper. And despite the professional affinity for manned flight, combat pilots may soon concede the skies.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/NC28Dj04.html

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'T')here will always be a real live person at the other end controlling the "drone" with a joystick, just like in Pakistan. These things may be called "drones" but they all require a human eye and mind to acquire the target (which in Pakistan is is usually an entire building.) What would the drone helicopter do in NYC? Drop the pizza on the stoop? It's always going to be cheaper to hire a person "of color."