Do we want Amazon delivery drones over our backyards?

[u/Shamapow]

I spotted a campaign from an Aussie YouTuber I follow (Brent Pearson, his channel is about adventure bike riding & videography). His campaign is about Amazon pushing to start commercial drone deliveries in Australia.

Thought it was worth bringing up here, hopefully without breaking any sub rules.

My main concern? Losing quiet skies over my back garden.

He's actually a drone pilot and uses Amazon himself, but he is not ok with what is already happening in the US and highlighted worrisome facts:

• Noise: Apparently, during drop-offs, the drones hit around 82 dB (like a freight train passing right near your fence).
• Frequency: In places in the US where this is live, neighbours see a drone buzz past every 3 to 5 minutes all day long.

The main reason he's pushing this now is that once this gets approved, nearby residents basically get zero say on flight paths over their homes.

If you care about this, check his page to read what he put together and see if you want to sign: search "No Delivery Drones Brent Pearson" or "nodeliverydrones".

[u/PristineMountain1644]

They don’t need to. CASA has a well established framework for drone delivery operations already. Google’s Wing drone program have been operating in Australia since 2019 and have completed hundreds of thousands of commercial deliveries, mainly on behalf of DoorDash, in Logan, Ipswich, Ringwood and Canberra

[u/fnaah → u/PristineMountain1644]

i used it in canberra before the nimbys shut it down. was a pretty good service.

[u/PristineMountain1644 → u/fnaah]

It wasn’t the nimbys that shut the Canberra service down. From what I understand, they changed the operating model to only deliver for DoorDash exclusively in Australia, and DoorDash (at least at the time) wasn’t operating their delivery service in Canberra at all.

[u/Can-I-remember → u/fnaah]

Was that out if Greenway? Didn’t it move Northside after?

[u/fnaah → u/Can-I-remember]

greenway and bonython