If drones delivered pizza, how much would you tip them?

[wirednuts]

Flying has got to be less efficient than driving. Even if its a tiny robot that only has to carry 10lbs-20lbs

ultra lightweight carbon nanotube supercapacitors. the drones could fly out to the house and back, and recharge in just a few seconds. enough time for the cooks to get another pizza on it.

 

[Zorander]

Say they had drones to deliver pizza and other food, instead of people driving cars burning gas, and these drones flied to your house with assistance of a driver on the other end controlling it, how much would you tip? Or would you tip at all, given the person is just sitting on their butt anyway? What if they were autonomous and actually did not require a driver?

I don't tip computers nor smartphones, and certainly won't start doing it with any other machines.

Besides you'll be paying for this either by a delivery fee or by having the fee built into the purchase price.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I don't tip computers nor smartphones, and certainly won't start doing it with any other machines.

Besides you'll be paying for this either by a delivery fee or by having the fee built into the purchase price.

Actually that brings a whole other question, if we had the option to tip an ATM machine, how much would we be expected to tip, would it be a percentage of what we took out? :biggrin:

 

[Red Squirrel]

Well, looks like this is a reality. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=on4DRTUvst0

 

[ch33zw1z]

zilch.

 

[Exterous]

Well, looks like this is a reality. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=on4DRTUvst0

What? I have to go outside and get it out of the choppa myself?! I don't tip if I have to go outside! The sun hurts my skin too much. Also looks like you need an early warning system to know it has arrived.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Well, looks like this is a reality. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=on4DRTUvst0

What if I shoot it down.

Do I get to keep the pizza?

 

[Red Squirrel]

What? I have to go outside and get it out of the choppa myself?! I don't tip if I have to go outside! The sun hurts my skin too much. Also looks like you need an early warning system to know it has arrived.

Yeah they'll have to improve on that for sure.

The reason I order pizza is because I don't feel like shoveling my driveway or trenching threw a few feet of snow. So I pay someone to do it. The drones may eventually be fitted with door recognition technology.

 

[SKORPI0]

What if I shoot it down.

Do I get to keep the pizza?

I'll keep the choppa, you can have the pizza.

 

[KeithTalent]

Around 10 gippers.

KT

 

[Maximilian]

I tip people, not machines.

Thats that kind of attitude that ensures the downfall of humans to skynet.

Tip noone instead, thats fairer and cheaper :thumbsup:

 

[BurnItDwn]

I would trap the drone and then knock it out via a baseball bat or golf club or hammer. Then, I would take it apart and then find the factory reset switch. I would power it back up after I can confirm I have disabled it's antenna so it can't call home. Then, I would try to root it so I could make it mine.

This could be either 1.) I would look for a serial port or some other interface port where I could hook it up to a PC or at least get it a keyboard and monitor....
or 2.) I would disassemble it trying to find the storage device (hard drive, SSD, whatever), and I would then attach it to a PC as a secondary drive, once I am able to access the drive I'd copy the password file, and then try to break it so I could hack the root password.

Then, once I have control over the drone, I would fly it back to the pizza place, and then I would have it spin around in circles around the pizza place just going and going and going until it's batteries or fuel cell or whatever is low. Then, It would land on the roof of the tallest building near the pizza place in an awkward place.

I would videotape the reaction of the pizza man as his drone disobeys him.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

I'll keep the choppa, you can have the pizza.

:thumbsup:

 

[Red Squirrel]

If you hijack a pizza delivery chopper, would that be considered a terrorist act? Especially if the pizza is not actually yours.

 

[Peter Nixeus]

If you hijack a pizza delivery chopper, would that be considered a terrorist act? Especially if the pizza is not actually yours.

I think most of that would be thwarted by the live video feed = live surveillance video...

I would not be surprised if it is funded or assisted by government grants = gives USA intelligance a reason to use the video feeds too! D:

 

[mmntech]

If you use a drone to get the door, pick up the pizza, and bring it to your living room... does your drone have to tip the pizza drone?

 

[SKORPI0]

If you hijack a pizza delivery chopper, would that be considered a terrorist act? Especially if the pizza is not actually yours.

What, plant a bomb on the chopper on it's way back? You'll have to do that on it's blind side, where the camera is not pointing.

Choppers have to be insured. Callers having their Pizza delivered this way will have to pay a special "convenience fee". Only confirmed addresses and previous customers of good standing. Don't this things have a specific range?

 

[Ayah]

So, I'm guessing they wouldn't use drones for apartments?
It'd make sense for a delivery to a house or townhouse, anything that has direct outdoors access.

Either way, zero tip!

 

[WiseUp216]

I'll tip the same amount that I already give to the mindless automatons who deliver it now.

 

[DrPizza]

Just think - with improvements in battery technology, eventually NewEgg can ship directly to you via helicopter.

 

[shortylickens]

You should have seen some of the space cadets I saw out in Oregon.
Am surprised they never scarfed the pizza before it got to me.

 

[Scotteq]

Say they had drones to deliver pizza and other food, instead of people driving cars burning gas, and these drones flied to your house with assistance of a driver on the other end controlling it, how much would you tip? Or would you tip at all, given the person is just sitting on their butt anyway? What if they were autonomous and actually did not require a driver?

tip it a 9volt.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just think - with improvements in battery technology, eventually NewEgg can ship directly to you via helicopter.

That would be awesome!

NCIX could do that, if they had thousands of micro drones. They like to ship your entire order in like 20 separate boxes. You ordered 6 cables? We'll send you 3 now, and send you the other 3 tomorrow. We'll ship your video card now, but in another box, oh and that case, yeah, backordered, but don't worry the power supply was sent in another box right after the 3 cables!

I can just picture tiny drones swarming towards my house and building my new system on the driveway, one little piece at a time.

 

[MrDavid]

i hardly tip the usual delivery service. for me its like tipping the post man or the drivers in public transportation

 

[Aikouka]

Awhile ago, I joked with a friend that I should buy an ArduCopter (~$800 for an autonomous quadrocopter) and set it up via waypoints to deliver stuff to him. Maybe I should have patented the idea!