Google drones to deliver beer right into your hand as early as 2017
Google’s drone executive Dave Vos who runs Google Project Wing has revealed that its delivery-by-drone product is progressing rapidly, promising drones will have the capability to deliver a beer directly into your hand as early as next year.
Vos told the delegates at the Aero Club of Washington that drone delivery will be possible “literally within the next year or two”, earlier than many experts previously expected the technology to be up and running. To further accentuate its progress, he used an an example where someone could order a beer on their phone and have it delivered right to their hand in three minutes.
He suggested the service would combine knowledge of the user's preferences with instant drone delivery, whereby you could order something on your phone and have it within a few minutes.
“‘O.K. Google, what was that beer?'” Vos said, using beer delivery as an example of the drone's capabilities. “‘Can I have one now? And three minutes from now, please. And, oh by the way I’m going to be going down there so can you drop it there? And when I get there I want to just be walking along and get an update that says ‘your beer is here.””
“That’s what we want to make happen,” Vos told the crowd.
Google and Amazon are competing to pioneer delivery-by-drone services, but are yet to be granted federal approval. They joined a Federal Aviation Administration task force in October along with retail corporation Walmart, that will establish the rules for registering and identifying drones. During his speech, Vos addressed ongoing concerns on the overhead disturbance that could be a symptom of drone delivery, reassuring the crowd that its own effort will be created with a level of consideration and collaboration.
“There’s enough altitude…and there’s enough space out there today that is completely unoccupied, and we can do it in a way that is quiet enough and unobtrusive enough that it is not going to be impactful and that you won’t really notice and that you can still accomplish a phenomenal amount of activity in that low altitude airspace regime.”