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#ev 1st time Truck-UAV package delivery service - will FAA let it fly? New autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was developed to work in tandem w/ AMPs electric delivery trucks, creating a safe, fast & never-before-seen method of delivering goods. HorseFly will be positioned atop a delivery truck, awaiting a package from the driver. When loaded, the HorseFly will scan the barcode on the package, determine the path to the delivery address via GPS & fly away—completely self-guided—to the appropriate destination. Meanwhile, the delivery truck will continue on its rounds. After successful delivery, HorseFly will zoom back to the truck for its next delivery run and, if needed, a roughly 2-minute wireless recharge. Our premise w/ HorseFly is that the HorseFly sticks close to the horse ... If required, the HorseFly will wirelessly recharge from the large battery in the WorkHorse truck. The fact that the delivery trucks are sufficiently scattered within almost any region during the day makes for short flights, as opposed to flying from the warehouse for each delivery. (as Amazon proposed earlier in the year) rdmag/news/2014/06/octocopter-named-%E2%80%9Chorsefly%E2%80%9D-takes-flight
Posted on: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:20:16 +0000

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