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13 hours agoVideo Shows Amazon Drone Dropping Package Into Pond
Amazon's delivery drones are facing significant operational issues, including misdelivering packages into water and other hazards.
The measure, by Sup. Jackie Fielder, would also preserve so-called Production, Distribution, and Repair space for blue-collar jobs and protect that space from tech-company displacement. San Francisco has a long history of allowing PDR space to be taken over by tech companies. Now companies like Amazon and DoorDash are looking at robot delivery services (drones weighing ten pounds carrying chicken wings and pizza in the air over crowded neighborhoods? Robots riding along crowded sidewalks with Amazon products? What could possibly go wrong?), and Fielder is concerned. AI companies and tech research in PDR zones "places development pressure" on sites that still offer decent jobs for people without advanced degrees, she said today at the Land Use and Transportation Committee.