Amazon needs to overcome a number of hurdles in order to make Prime Air drone deliveries a reality. The biggest of those is the fact that under current laws it isn’t legal. But if we assume laws will change and Amazon drones are going to fill the skies, the next problem to solve is the best way to leave a package at its destination.
The most obvious way to achieve this is to have the drone land, release the package from its underbelly and take off again. But this method carries a lot of risk. A pet or human could be injured by the drone, the drone could topple over and become stuck or it could be stolen. It’s much safer to keep the bow-and-arrow-proof drone flying at all times, so Amazon is investigating other ways to, quite literally, drop the package off…