The DoorDash delivery service from the drone company Wing — a subsidiary of Alphabet, as well as Google — announces a delivery to introduce sandwiches in the Wendy's fast food network in the state of Virginia (United States). The equipment used is capable of going 100 km/h.
Entry with drones will initially be tested in the city of Christiansburg, with selected customers. The wing's planes reach 105 km/h. One hour from the end of the shipment to the consumer's home, the drone lowers the products with a cord helper.
DoorDash and Wing will be available in Australia from 2022. The groups that offer the application Down Under expect several million customers using a drone.
A Wing has already completed another pilot program in Christiansburg in 2019, with the Walgreens farm network and logistics company FedEx. So there are different projects and plots, and Wing has completed more than 350 million of them in three countries.
After these years, exchanges with drones are still limited
The idea of buying gifts for drones arose this year, tendo has Amazon as one of its main enthusiasts. After a long time of desenvolvimento, o Amazon Prime Air goes live our EUAs in December 2022, in Lockerford (California) and College Station (Texas).
Walmart is also offering this option for 11 stores in the Dallas (Texas) area starting in 2022. The service costs US$3.99 (approximately R$20, per direct conversion) and is available for 10 million products, including damaged items. , like eggs.
In Brazil, the most relevant initiative of this type is that of iFood, which is also in the experimental phase. Currently, a company is carrying out entregas com drones in Aracaju (SE). Between 2020 and 2021, she test of this mode in Campinas (SP)but the project was discontinued.
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