Drones delivering pizza? Not such a far-fetched idea
SARITA, TEXAS — If someday soon it’s possible to have a hot pizza delivered to your door by a drone, it may be because of work now underway on the remote and sandy shores of the Texas Gulf Coast.
There, where the extra-salty waters of the Gulf of Mexico push their way onto the fertile fields of the historic Kenedy Ranch along Laguna Madre, a team of acclaimed scientists and engineers is carefully researching how to fly airplanes without pilots. They’re conducting their research on behalf of the Federal Aviation Administration in this unpopulated area, mainly so no one gets hurt.
To be clear, they’re not there to expedite an order of pepperoni with extra cheese to your house. In fact, many of the researchers bristle at the suggestion that in just a few years the work they’re doing with unmanned aircraft could lead to drones buzzing among birds, treetops and tall buildings, making restaurant and retail deliveries in major metro areas such as Dallas-Fort Worth, 500 miles to the north.
Instead, they say, the real benefit of unmanned aircraft will be in police work, firefighting and other public services — in which remote-control machines can gather intelligence without putting humans at risk.
More at http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/01/18/5496531/drones-delivering-pizza-not-such.html?rh=1 .
[font color=green]I have mixed feelings about this development since I was once a pizza delivery driver. However, if this business model ever goes into effect then I guess that I'll save a small fortune in the tips I give to the drivers.[/font]
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Okay, I'll pony up as long as the pizza is hot when it arrives.
It should be a great boost in the voyeurism community. 
but I know he wouldn't be caught dead on this hotbed of Website with us liberal, commie socialists. 
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How long would it take for some 'puter whiz that loves pizza to divert these drones?
Guess it depends how hungry they are at the time . . .
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