Delivery drones are here and the neighbourhood has opinions
Fast, cheap and loud: the first full year of residential drone delivery, by the numbers.
The service promised nine-minute delivery on small items, and by its own accounting it has largely delivered.
Customers love it. The people who did not order anything and can hear every flight path are less enthusiastic.
Noise, mapped
Complaint data clusters tightly along two corridors, which the operator says it can reroute and residents say it should have modelled first.
Regulators have approved an expansion with conditions, including published flight windows and a public complaints log.
Whether that satisfies anyone will be clear by spring, when the fleet doubles.
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