This is literally a case of ‘Old man shakes fist at cloud’
Drones are significantly faster, cheaper, more environmentally friendly.
They are not going anywhere.
You cannot fight progress like this.
Welcome to the future
How loud are they?
I counted 346 motor vehicles driving past my house before 2pm but the media didn’t seem to care about that when I called them.
I know I’d be getting someone with a hawk or some other predator bird.
Train them to take down the drones.
The companies wouldn’t be too long changing their route.
Most of that drone activity will just go over people’s heads..
I live close enough to the base. You can’t hear the drones if you’re inside. You can hardly hear them as they’re flying by outside. And there’s absolutely no way someone had 40 drones fly over their home in one day unless they live in McDonald’s!
Did they count the number of diesel vehicles rumbling past? Because those are a LOT noisier.
That said, the algorithm could start randomising the path more, maybe nudge altitude up by 20m.
Also, using balanced carbon fibre props instead of plastic shit will halve the noise and get rid of the distinctive buzz (I used to hand-balance my props and the result were absolutely glorious, the hexacopter I built would *sing* in the rather than buzz) .
Unless their actual direct neighbours are getting deliveries that is, in which case the coffee jitters must be amazing
These things are going to be a fucking scourge. One vehicle can carry dozens, even hundreds of packages.
Cars and vans travel on designated spaces called roads, and they’ve been getting quieter.
One drone = one package. Imagine the hellscape they will create when there’s hundreds of them flying overhead constantly.
I will quite happily shoot these fucking things down if they’re buzzing over my home.
These things are annoying as fuck. They need proper legislation to stop the flying at low level over houses.
Unless their close neighbours are getting deliveries all the time they won’t hear it. It flies very high up, you can only see the lights not hear it.
I live in this area and at first it was disruptive but now it’s just background noise. No more than that of the cars driving by. In fact it’s much better than traffic as you’ll often get lads with their mufflers removed driving by setting off car alarms. All that’s loud enough to be heard indoors. These drones aren’t loud enough to be heard indoors even when landing.
They also only have cameras facing directly down and only use them to land and to deliver. So no invasion of privacy at all.
You can also request that your house be avoided by them and they’ll respect that where possible.
Also they only deliver between specific hours and really aren’t that bad at all. Personally I think they’re much better than the road traffic they’re replacing.
Make catapults great again
The article is locked behind a paywall I think, do you have a TLDR please? Just interested in what delivery companies are using drones.
Are they going for planning permission for AA batteries?
They are *incredibly* loud. Like a petrol lawnmower or hedge trimmer. We can hear them inside our house, with brand new windows and doors. My parents live closer to a base and the noise over their house is shocking. They’re an absolute scourge.
We’ve heard them going over as late as 10:00 p.m. and they have disrupted trying to get a child to nap or sleep at night. They really should never have got a licence.
i mean their correct
Is the legislation controlling drone flights more robust than the legislation controlling ownership of a good catapult? Problem solved.
Can the drones operate in poor weather and at night? I didnt think these would work out too well on rainy windy days
They’ve been operating in Balbriggan for years and it never bothered us flying over.
Coastguard heli on the other hand…. now that flies over quite a lot and is an order of magnitude louder.
These things categorically do not sound as loud as helicopters, that’s just hyperbole.
I’m waiting till the shitebags suss out getting them down.
Nothing is safe, even the gardai pushbikes were highly sought after when they released.
I saw an interview with Elon musk a few years ago and they asked him why he was working on tunnel technology for transportation and not drone technology. He said drones are extremely loud and in the future if there’s ever a lot of them flying around constantly people aren’t gonna put up with it long term. The noise will become unbearable. Also there’s no way to engineer a drone that considerably quieter.
I’d be out with my pellet gun anyway…….
Serious question – can they actually hear it? I have a DJI Mini 2 and once it’s above 10/15m you can’t hear it at all. I know these drones are probably much bigger but surely it’s possible to fly them at a height where people can’t hear them?
Fly then higher.
I guess I am just old fashioned (or just old) but the idea of getting a small helicopter to deliver me a cup of coffee in a plastic cup and, I assume, bag and other packaging, seems mad.
I just made a rather nice cup using our 10 year old espresso maker. Fast, cheap, low impact. No helicopters.
The delivery drones are noticeably loud when they go over your home. I don’t think people are being unreasonable to say they have an issue with it.
Seems like a novelty thing.
A cool thing to bring up about getting a coffee delivered by drone.
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This is literally a case of ‘Old man shakes fist at cloud’
Drones are significantly faster, cheaper, more environmentally friendly.
They are not going anywhere.
You cannot fight progress like this.
Welcome to the future
How loud are they?
I counted 346 motor vehicles driving past my house before 2pm but the media didn’t seem to care about that when I called them.
I know I’d be getting someone with a hawk or some other predator bird.
Train them to take down the drones.
The companies wouldn’t be too long changing their route.
Most of that drone activity will just go over people’s heads..
I live close enough to the base. You can’t hear the drones if you’re inside. You can hardly hear them as they’re flying by outside. And there’s absolutely no way someone had 40 drones fly over their home in one day unless they live in McDonald’s!
Did they count the number of diesel vehicles rumbling past? Because those are a LOT noisier.
That said, the algorithm could start randomising the path more, maybe nudge altitude up by 20m.
Also, using balanced carbon fibre props instead of plastic shit will halve the noise and get rid of the distinctive buzz (I used to hand-balance my props and the result were absolutely glorious, the hexacopter I built would *sing* in the rather than buzz) .
Unless their actual direct neighbours are getting deliveries that is, in which case the coffee jitters must be amazing
These things are going to be a fucking scourge. One vehicle can carry dozens, even hundreds of packages.
Cars and vans travel on designated spaces called roads, and they’ve been getting quieter.
One drone = one package. Imagine the hellscape they will create when there’s hundreds of them flying overhead constantly.
I will quite happily shoot these fucking things down if they’re buzzing over my home.
These things are annoying as fuck. They need proper legislation to stop the flying at low level over houses.
Unless their close neighbours are getting deliveries all the time they won’t hear it. It flies very high up, you can only see the lights not hear it.
I live in this area and at first it was disruptive but now it’s just background noise. No more than that of the cars driving by. In fact it’s much better than traffic as you’ll often get lads with their mufflers removed driving by setting off car alarms. All that’s loud enough to be heard indoors. These drones aren’t loud enough to be heard indoors even when landing.
They also only have cameras facing directly down and only use them to land and to deliver. So no invasion of privacy at all.
You can also request that your house be avoided by them and they’ll respect that where possible.
Also they only deliver between specific hours and really aren’t that bad at all. Personally I think they’re much better than the road traffic they’re replacing.
Make catapults great again
The article is locked behind a paywall I think, do you have a TLDR please? Just interested in what delivery companies are using drones.
Are they going for planning permission for AA batteries?
They are *incredibly* loud. Like a petrol lawnmower or hedge trimmer. We can hear them inside our house, with brand new windows and doors. My parents live closer to a base and the noise over their house is shocking. They’re an absolute scourge.
We’ve heard them going over as late as 10:00 p.m. and they have disrupted trying to get a child to nap or sleep at night. They really should never have got a licence.
i mean their correct
Is the legislation controlling drone flights more robust than the legislation controlling ownership of a good catapult? Problem solved.
Can the drones operate in poor weather and at night? I didnt think these would work out too well on rainy windy days
They’ve been operating in Balbriggan for years and it never bothered us flying over.
Coastguard heli on the other hand…. now that flies over quite a lot and is an order of magnitude louder.
These things categorically do not sound as loud as helicopters, that’s just hyperbole.
I’m waiting till the shitebags suss out getting them down.
Nothing is safe, even the gardai pushbikes were highly sought after when they released.
I saw an interview with Elon musk a few years ago and they asked him why he was working on tunnel technology for transportation and not drone technology. He said drones are extremely loud and in the future if there’s ever a lot of them flying around constantly people aren’t gonna put up with it long term. The noise will become unbearable. Also there’s no way to engineer a drone that considerably quieter.
I’d be out with my pellet gun anyway…….
Serious question – can they actually hear it? I have a DJI Mini 2 and once it’s above 10/15m you can’t hear it at all. I know these drones are probably much bigger but surely it’s possible to fly them at a height where people can’t hear them?
Fly then higher.
I guess I am just old fashioned (or just old) but the idea of getting a small helicopter to deliver me a cup of coffee in a plastic cup and, I assume, bag and other packaging, seems mad.
I just made a rather nice cup using our 10 year old espresso maker. Fast, cheap, low impact. No helicopters.
The delivery drones are noticeably loud when they go over your home. I don’t think people are being unreasonable to say they have an issue with it.
Seems like a novelty thing.
A cool thing to bring up about getting a coffee delivered by drone.
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