{"id":117818,"date":"2023-10-19T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T06:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/amazon-unveils-plan-to-deliver-packages-by-drone-in-uk-and-italy\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T09:15:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T06:15:32","slug":"amazon-unveils-plan-to-deliver-packages-by-drone-in-uk-and-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/amazon-unveils-plan-to-deliver-packages-by-drone-in-uk-and-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon unveils plan to deliver packages by drone in UK and Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117818\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nAmazon has announced plans to start delivering packages via drone for the first time in the UK and Italy as it attempts to get its ambitious airborne delivery program off the ground. The American technology giant said on Wednesday that it will introduce autonomous aircraft delivery in Britain and Italy \u201cin late 2024\u201d, a decade after first publicly setting its sights on the skies. It hopes to be delivering 500m packages via drone each year by the end of the decade. The announcement came as Amazon unveiled its new generation of drones at its headquarters in Seattle. David Carbon, Amazon\u2019s vice-president for Prime Air, said: \u201cWe are excited to announce the expansion of Prime Air delivery internationally, for the first time outside the US. \u201cWe have built a safe, reliable delivery service and have partnered very closely with regulators and communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s drone-based service is currently only available within two small sites in California and Texas, where it launched less than a year ago. Amazon intends to add a third American location next year. Amazon first outlined plans to use drones for delivery in 2013, stoking expectations of a new era of even faster package delivery. \u201cIt will work, and it will happen, and it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun,\u201d founder Jeff Bezos told 60 Minutes on CBS at the time. But progress has been slow. The company launched its Prime Air service \u2013 in Lockeford, California, and College Station, Texas \u2013 late last year, and CNBC reported in May that its drones had conducted just 100 deliveries. It had previously set an internal target of 10,000 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Activity has since ramped up, according to Amazon. Amazon drones have delivered \u201cthousands\u201d of packages, said Carbon. \u201cAnd we have thousands of customers.\u201d The company did conduct a small-scale drone delivery test in the UK in 2016. While delivering to customers via drone outside the US will amount to a significant breakthrough, Amazon\u2019s announcement was light on specifics. The company pledged to \u201cstart with one site\u201d in the UK and Italy and \u201cexpand over time\u201d, but executives declined to comment on where in each country they would launch first.<\/p>\n<p>Under a \u201cmapped-out plan\u201d, Carbon told reporters during a briefing that the tech giant would ultimately dispatch drones from a string of locations across the US, UK and Italy. \u201cWe will open more facilities over time,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is not a market test. Our customers, and frankly our communities, need this type of sustainable service.\u201d The service will \u201cstart slow\u201d, Carbon added. \u201cWe\u2019re really starting the commercial service. The testing\u2019s been done. We know the drone has been proven.\u201d In comments provided by Amazon, Baroness Vere, the UK transport minister, said: \u201cAmazon\u2019s announcement today is a fantastic example of government and industry coming together to achieve our shared vision for commercial drones to be commonplace in the UK by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is far from alone in trying to crack drone deliveries. Other key players in the market include Walmart, the US retail giant, and Alphabet, owner of Google. Strict regulatory requirements have forced operators to climb a steep path. In the UK, the Civil Aviation Authority sees Amazon\u2019s first launch as an opportunity to learn how drones can safely function in the country\u2019s airspace. A \u201cbest-case\u201d adoption scenario laid out in a government policy paper last summer raised the prospect of more than 900,000 drones operating above Britain.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/18\/amazon-drone-delivery-uk-italy\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/18\/amazon-drone-delivery-uk-italy\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/amazon-unveils-plan-to-deliver-packages-by-drone-in-uk-and-italy\/\">Amazon unveils plan to deliver packages by drone in UK and Italy<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1177,755,2926,2520,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-117818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-deliver","tag-drone","tag-package","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}