Streetwear Delivered by Drones

Streetwear Delivered By Drones??

Will your next rare Supreme purchase arrive via drone?

Is this the inevitable future of e-commerce?

Sebastien: What up, what up? Welcome to The Digital Acid Podcast. The only place on the internet, where you're going to find the best of future tech and street culture. I'm your host Sebastien. And I'm joined by my homie Nathan.

Nathan: What’s good, what’s good?

Sebastien: And we're gonna be talking about a crazy topic today. What if your next streetwear cop arrived via drone delivery? We're going to talk about that and more.

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Sebastien: Back to this. So what's your thoughts on this? Just right out the gate just from the headline seems like UPS got approval from the RAA to be able to do drone delivery, and this is the first.

Nathan: So I think a little while back, I saw something about like Amazon having drone delivery or they're going to come out with it, but they never like happened, right?

Sebastien: I think a big part of that is because there is a lot of clearance on airspace. So I'm just kind of like out the gate without reading the article or anything. And I think we're going to jump into that in just a second. But off the top of my head. There's a few concerns, right? It's like, first of all, the noise. You're going to have thousands of drones. I mean, ecommerce is not going to slow down. So buying things on the internet, coppin you know, the latest kicks are whatever that's not going to slow down. People gonna want it faster over the years. And, and so with all those buzzing above your head, if there's a malfunction, then it can fall on your head. So there's a safety issue. And that's why a lot of these companies that are doing food delivery or package delivery on land, like the ones with wheels, like Starship Technologies, I believe is working on something. So yeah, overall, there hasn't been any clearance. So I don't see how Amazon could yet do it.

Nathan: Oh my god, bro well what if it just drops it on accident? Just drops it somewhere random.

Sebastien: And it's just like 1 of 1. You bought the Supreme brick and the brick breaks. Awwww!

Nathan: Oh my god.

Sebastien: I mean I guess you have insurance but again if it's like a limited, if it's super rare then yeah.

Nathan: I don't even think you're getting insurance on that. You just lost out man. [laughs] That sucks!

Nathan: Hmm.

Sebastien: However, I'm sure that Amazon is a partner with UPS. So they're probably going to get it as a consequence.

Nathan: Hmm. Okay, okay. I think it's pretty cool. Like I'd probably want to get that like, especially if it's really really quick. Like, if it's cuz Amazon was boasting 30 minute delivery if you if you live close enough like in certain areas yeah and so like if they can get it to me in 30 minutes it’s worth it. Yeah yeah but if it takes a little bit longer than that like if that sh*t’s traveling for a while, then I don't know how I feel because like already like that's gonna be hella sh*t flying around man yeah so I mean…that’s a lot to have in the air.

Sebastien: And the other thing is that like so let's say like okay so you get past the bots and you get the Supreme drop that you've been dying for. Right? And then somebody shoots your drone down!

Sebastien: So interesting. What's your thoughts out the gate?

Nathan: First thing I noticed is they're using it for hospitals and sh*t like that. So like, that’s cool. Okay, that's great. That's improving.

Sebastien: Like supplies probably or something. Yeah, something like that.

Sebastien: Something quick.

Nathan: Yeah, that's perfectly fine. So you're not going to be getting like, your clothes or anything in that. I don't think just yet, but I think that's pretty good. Like, I don't know if I'm ready to see like, thousands of drones just flying around because they're cleared to fly as many as they want, man. So...

Sebastien: Well, that was the kind of thing that I thought was interesting because it said this license would allow them to fly as many as they want. But they would only start with the hospital work, right. But the license granted them to do everything.

Nathan: Yeah, I think that's smart.

Sebastien: Flying at night. And so, you know, I wonder if that's kind of the first integrations is we'll see that at night time, you know, they'll probably have a regulation of how many can fly with the amount of sound that it causes, to not like wake people up and stuff. Then you'll probably hear a lot of them flying at night instead of during the day when there's probably a lot of risk of like falling on somebody or whatever.

Nathan: Makes sense. I think it's a smart move by them to enter the market like that you know because I think people are more accepting you know “Oh, it’s for hospitals to help people.” You know what I'm saying?

Sebastien: So you think that that's like a legit intent or is that like the ploy?

Nathan: Mmmm. It could be a ploy but you know. I don't want to...I'm not shooting any shots here. I'm just saying it seems like a very like nice way to get into the market.

Sebastien: Okay, so there you go. We have the limit is 55 pounds. As you mentioned, it's probably going to come from like so it's probably going to start in the cities that have already the Amazon warehouses. Right? So which are already fulfilled by robots.

Nathan: But interestingly enough, it also mentioned that Amazon Air is not getting...is not.

Sebastien: So they don't have an approval for their drones. So like I said, though, they're using UPS they're using all of this for Amazon anyways. It just means that they can't start their own drone airline. So it said that Alphabet or Google was authorized to have one person within the company piloting. That operates it all. Yeah, whereas UPS has no constraints.

Nathan: Okay. Well, so I mean, so I think that's pretty dope though.

Sebastien: I mean, imagine like, you know, you cop your new drop, and then you see it arriving via drone.

Nathan: That would be crazy. Yeah, that would be crazy, though. For sure. That would get me. I would be like, “That’s the future-way to cop, dude!” Have your sh*t just delivered...through a drone?

Sebastien: Ohhhhh! You know, the most epic like outfit change or something? You know what I mean? Like, have it delivered to the club.

Nathan: Ohhh my god! Yeah!

You know what I mean? Like some drip!

Nathan: That's a stunt dude. That’s a stunt. Just plan it out. 30 minutes in advance.

Sebastien: Definitely. That's a dope way to do it. Just have your drip delivered via drone. Have the drip drone bring it to you.

Nathan: I'm glad that they're taking this approach though, where you're not getting bombarded all the way. You get a little build up here. So you'll see a few of them.

Sebastien: Yeah.

Nathan: You get used to it. You see a few more.

Sebastien: Right.

Nathan: Get used to it even more.

Sebastien: Yeah. It eases in there. You know? It eaaaaaases in there.

Both: [laughes]

Nathan: You get more used to it. Yea and then before you know it, you got thousands flying around.

Sebastien: Yeah, and you forgot the time where the sky wasn't covered in drones.

Nathan: There you go. [laughing]

Sebastien: Well, so okay, seems like thumbs up. But you know, just, let's take it easy. Let's watch it. Let’s see it develop.

Nathan: For sure.

Sebastien: And then you know, so thumbs up but with caution. Dope story.