If the Amazon drone will deliver the item to you home, then everyone will be happy. What would happen if he did not only deliver, but will crash somewhere on a busy street with an Internet purchase? It’s much worse. Not only that, someone will be able to usurp the contents of the air parcel apparatus, and the drone can somewhere or someone painful fall. To prevent or at least minimize the damage from a possible crash of a drone, Amazon decided to provide their aircraft with a self-destruct system. A patent filed early this week.
When drones couriers will work not only on Amazon and a couple of large companies, and will become a routine method of delivery, among them will increase and the number of accidents. And if the shop can quickly produce a quality repair, replacing another detail of the apparatus, during delivery it will be much harder to do. Therefore, it is better to get a drone along with the package to self-destruct than to sue for multi-million dollar lawsuit with a disgruntled former mistress of the poodle, which was pulverized by the blades of the faulty pseudo-drone. Reasonable.
This does work in the following way: a special software will track the health of the construction unit and its separate parts. Having identified the problem, the program will signal to the onboard computer drone, which, depending on the nature of the damage will take a decision: to unfasten the broken item or to fall apart completely in the air, unfastening the different modules in turn. So it is possible to significantly reduce the damages to people, animals or property.
Amazon drones will self-destruct in crash
Vyacheslav Larionov