It is reported that the Meituan drone food delivery service project has been a long time in the making. As early as 2017, Meituan started the research and development of UAV delivery. After four years of development investment, important results have finally been achieved recently. Meituan's UAV food delivery service will be committed to solving the low-altitude logistics network problems of 3 kilometers and 15 minutes of delivery, and promote the rapid transformation and development of the takeout delivery industry.
At present, although the takeout industry is developing rapidly, there are many problems in the delivery of the last 3 kilometers, including slow delivery, high labor cost and inadequate delivery security, etc., which not only make the consumer experience bad, but also bring challenges to the takeout e-commerce enterprises. In this context, the emergence of drone delivery can just bring good news to solve these problems, benefiting customers, businesses and delivery operators.
However, for such a project with broad prospects and significant significance, netizens have raised their own concerns. For example, some netizens worry that the regular use of Meituan drones may cause the loss of personal privacy, and that there are often pairs of "eyes" above their heads staring at them, as if they are being monitored by enterprises. If the enterprise misuses the information again, the consequence is unimaginable.
At the same time, some netizens expressed concern about the safety of drone delivery. The areas where drones are delivered are almost all commercial or residential areas with relatively dense human flow. If the safety and stability of drones are insufficient and crash accidents occur, there is no doubt that it will seriously threaten the safety of people and property, and at the same time, it will also cause corresponding disputes. How these problems will be solved by then, netizens are doubtful and puzzled.
Of course, the safety of the drones themselves has also attracted many netizens' attention. They believe that UAV is a high-tech product, expensive, such products in the application will inevitably be targeted by some criminals, such as directly kidnap UAV resell and so on. That is to say, the safety of drones when delivering food is also lacking, which will affect their normal application to some extent.
In addition, the most criticized by some netizens is whether drone delivery is really convenient for consumers. According to Meituan, its UAV delivery adopts the process from the base to the drone delivery cabinet, meaning that the delivery can not be delivered to your door, and finally consumers have to go to the delivery cabinet to pick it up, which makes a lot of people think chicken.
To sum up, drone delivery is indeed a good idea and the prospect is worth looking forward to, but the difficulties we are facing at this stage are not small. In addition to technical and cost obstacles, application security, specific service experience, user privacy protection, supporting rights and responsibilities also need to be considered by relevant enterprises and departments. In a word, there is a long way to go before drone delivery, and we still need your encouragement!
