{"id":5406,"date":"2016-12-15T12:18:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T02:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2016-12-15T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T02:18:49","slug":"amazon-prime-air-completes-its-first-drone-delivery-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/amazon-prime-air-completes-its-first-drone-delivery-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime Air completes its first drone delivery in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amazon Prime Air\u2019s First Customer Delivery\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vNySOrI2Ny8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a delivery system from Amazon designed to safely get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles, also called drones. Prime Air has great potential to enhance the services we already provide to millions of customers by providing rapid parcel delivery that will also increase the overall safety and efficiency of the transportation system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Currently delivering to 2 customers in Cambridge. Yes you read that correctly&#8230; 2.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly it&#8217;s started in the UK because their drone flying laws are pretty relaxed. One operator can fly multiple drones and they don&#8217;t have to be within line of sight.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Amazon-Prime-Air\/b?ie=UTF8&amp;node=8037720011\">Amazon Prime Air<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230;a delivery system from Amazon designed to safely get packages to customers in 30 minutes or less using&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}