Drones and unmanned aerial vehicles in air transport and cargo services
The fact that drones are linked to military operations and illegal encroachment behavior often overshadows the peaceful and important role they play in civilian airspace. Nowadays, drones play an important role in almost every field of life. Farmers use them to water plants, cameramen use them to capture luscious shots, astronauts use them to explore planets, and recently, mega-corporations have started investing heavily in unmanned aerial transportation and delivery services.
The recent increase in drone usage rates encouraged large companies in the air freight and cargo industries to invest in drone-based deliveries. It even prompted corporations not associated with air delivery and cargo services to experiment with the idea.
On November 28, Cyber Monday, Amazon announced its futuristic delivery system that is expected to deliver packages to customers in just 30 minutes. They played a video showing an airplane delivering a pair of sneakers to a customer with great ease. They announced that their service will be called Amazon Air Prime. In April 2015, Amazon Air Prime began testing its first parcel helicopter. The date on which its first parcel helicopter is expected to start operating has yet to be announced, however, with development reaching its peak and the testing phase beginning, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently announced which is expected to start operating at the end of 2018.
According to forecasts, drone-based air cargo and delivery services are expected to reach the grand sum of $36.9 billion by 2022, reaching an unprecedented rate in the history of cargo and delivery services.
The birth of drone-based air cargo and delivery services is not geographically restricted to just the US but Europe as well. In early 2016, Swiss Post Ltd. announced that it will launch its own manufacturing line of drones to be used for mail and package delivery. Such a breakthrough will change the nature of air cargo and delivery services. The company announced that it aims to provide affordable drone-based deliveries to Swiss residents. If the project as envisioned is successfully implemented, it will mark another unprecedented milestone in creating an affordable drone service for the common man, unlike Amazon’s services, which are expected to be expensive in price and therefore expensive. exclusively available to the elite and the wealthy.
The world as we know it will definitely see an irreversible change once drone-based air cargo and delivery services go live. Automation has already taken over a large part of our lives and with the introduction of drones as an integral part of our daily routine, automation will be complete and comprehensive, to say the least. The prophecies of science fiction novels will come true and our lives will be easier than ever. In the end, this was meant to happen, our lives were meant to be automated. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, our thinkers have realized that machines are the future and humans are nothing but obsolete.