Amazon Prime Air To Deliver Items By Drones, How Can The Company Be Sure That The Products Will Arrive Safe On Time?

The future is here. Ever wondered before how would it like to be living in the world of the Jetsons? Well, this might be one small step in achieving the ‘future’.

Amazon will make the future come with its Amazon Prime Air. Courier companies like UPS and FedEx might be working hard for this season delivering products from Amazon right on your doorstep – but this is a game changer.

The Amazon Prime Air is an octocopter by the company that would bring the product you ordered online right to your house in just about 30 minutes after you checkout and buy the things you buy on their site.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the Amazon Prime Air on an interview with CBS’ “60 minutes” that they would use this drone to deliver packages in the future.

The drone is equipped with GPS so it would know where to deliver the good, drop the item and leave in just a nick of time. Online shopping would be so much easier now.

Though they might not use it anytime soon, Amazon will still work to make this kind of delivery system safe and sure.

"The hardest challenge in making this happen is demonstrating to the standards of the FAA that this is a safe thing to do. This is years of additional work at this point," Bezos said.

"The most important things are the big pieces of stability -- the rocks in the future -- that you can count on. For example in Amazon's retail business, I know that people will want low prices 10 years from now. I know they will want fast delivery," he added.

Amazon is sure that the Amazon Prime Air is the future of delivering just like in the Jetsons cartoons.

"I know this looks like science fiction -- it's not," Bezos told CBS. "It will work and it will happen. It's going to be a lot of fun."

Video of the Amazon Prime Air shown by the company on how it would work.

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