![]() This ad is clearly looking to get Amazon customers excited (Clarkson uses phrases like “amazing innovation”) about unmanned aerial vehicles and deliveries that arrive “in 30 minutes or less.” The online retailer giant is apparently hoping the public will push the FAA to approve a future where Amazon, and its competitors, deliver by drone.Īs for the drone itself, the design sure has changed over the past two years (Amazon says it has developed “more than a dozen” prototypes in its research and development labs). Putting Prime Air into service will take some time, but we will deploy when we have the regulatory support needed to realize our vision. Prime Air has great potential to enhance the services we already provide to millions of customers by providing rapid parcel delivery that will also increase the overall safety and efficiency of the transportation system. We’re excited about Prime Air - a future delivery system from Amazon designed to safely get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less using small unmanned aerial vehicles, also called drones. Customers will presumably have to somehow specify a “delivery zone” for drones to land in for package delivery. It uses ‘sense and avoid’ technology to well, sense, and then avoid, obstacles on the ground and in the air.”ĭrones can detect a landing area for dropping off packages that weigh up to five pounds. “This one can fly for 15 miles, and it knows what’s happening around it. The Prime Air is still in testing, but it could probably deliver 50 of those sticks at a time, so it's like the Lancaster bomber to the DJI's Spitfire.“In time, there will be a whole family of Amazon drones different designs for different environments,” Clarkson explains. That's CGI, and we're sorry to have to point out the obvious.Īmazon and drones go pretty much hand in hand, as the company has developed a heavy-duty unit to deliver its packages. It costs a lot of money and no, you can't fly several of them with one remote. Jeremy Clarkson introduces Amazon Prime Air drone delivery Loaded Progress 0:00 / 2:16 Video: Amazon reinstates FedEx Ground delivery as an option for third-party vendors after briefly. Now, we're not up to date with what the coolest drones are, but that looks like the DJI Inspire, the professional cousin of the Phantom. Yes, he looks old, but Tom Cruise is only three years younger, so it's no big deal. Home/Amazon is building a range of Prime Air delivery drones/Jeremy Clarkson featured in an ad showing off a prototype drone that could carry a payload of up to. Anyway, there's a debate sparking on the Internet about Clarkson's age. It would probably come out all scripted and fake. ![]() And we know Clarkson likes to say "Spitfire" a lot.Īnd now imagine Chris Evans doing this Amazon ad. Jeremy Clarkson, the former host and presenter of BBC’s Top Gear show, has been hired by Amazon to promote its products. With the drones in the background, it reminds us of a squadron of RAF Spitfires, flying to take France back from the Germans. Of course, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries makes this an even more enjoyable video. Did he really need to make fun of the BBC again? No, but he probably wanted to, and it was okay with the Amazon people. ![]() ![]() It's a classic Clarkson moment and, some might add, still a better show than the new Top Gear.Įven though he just started working for Amazon, the car show presenter is apparently calling some shots. We were certainly not disappointed to see him put on the aviator glasses, sit on the edge of the white cliffs of Dover and release a bunch of drones across the English Channel. ![]()
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