Amazon’s Drone Delivery Dream Is Crashing
&gt; “The computer, the ACS, the brain of the whole thing, is constantly telling the aircraft what to do and how to do it,” they say. “So when that restarts, you’re no longer getting power or signals or command to the motors. Everything goes offline. It turns into a brick and falls from the sky.”<p>Feels like it would be relatively trivial to have some kind of parachute system that went off automatically on system failure. Combine it with a GPS beacon and a separate loudspeaker and battery that goes off so people are alerted to it coming down so they can get out of the way.<p>Either way, if SpaceX can make self landing rockets, I&#x27;m pretty sure we as a species can figure out how to do drone delivery properly.