What if the delivery drones have a mapping mode - so they do the mapping during the deliveries and even according to Bezos these are limited to 10 miles range from their warehouses which would be much more easier to map than swathes of cities. There is a possibility for this to succeed as well as fail, but at this point this one is more than wishful thinking - the technology at the basic level is already there.
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"Aerial maps usually aren't updated frequently enough to show obstacles"
I wonder where a company that constantly had a fleet of drones in the air could get up to date aerial maps...
What if the delivery drones have a mapping mode - so they do the mapping during the deliveries and even according to Bezos these are limited to 10 miles range from their warehouses which would be much more easier to map than swathes of cities. There is a possibility for this to succeed as well as fail, but at this point this one is more than wishful thinking - the technology at the basic level is already there.