Express Delivery With Drones Instead of Trucks to Cut Carbon Emissions

[Adam Varga + 123]

Research shows drones can deliver certain items faster and more important with less environmental impact than trucks  which form part of a transport sector responsible for around of a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. 

[Vlad Kovalenko + 115]

Well this could be really helpfull in reducing emissions especially knowing that transport is the biggest polluting sector. 

[Selva + 252]

Drones could replace trucks in some deliveries but not completely. I mean idea is great looking from environmental side of this story, but it will be hard to expect drones to carry larger things. Trucks are still irreplaceable. 

[Adam Varga + 123]

Let's just say that Amazon and Google would make a big profit here. 

[Selva + 252]

Drones are environmental friendly only if they are small. The results showed that delivering a small package by a regular quadcopter drone leads to lower carbon emissions than those delivered by even electric trucks. But using a large octocopter drone produces higher carbon footprint per package than trucks. We'll stick to truck a little bit longer. 

[Rodent + 1,424]

This may be another tech idea that has laws lagging behind it. There have been multiple incidents with drones (including a hawk attacking one) , such as flying too close to aircraft and crash landing onto people. Perhaps we need to take this one a bit slower.