The last 50 feet is a problem for automated delivery and I have seen lots of solutions, from Amazon’s parachute drones to Mercedes’ delivery truck with drones. What if you could send the drone to a person instead of to a place? If you combined this with a tracking app on your phone or even with address data from what3words, this could be the best drone delivery solution yet … and life saving if it were used to deliver urgent healthcare devices like a portable defibrillator or medicine like epipen.
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