When the flights began to grow at the beginning of last year, people who live closest to the noise drone. Residents appealed to the city to do something, but legislators from Texas generally banned the cities of drone regulation, leaving local officials powerless.
Smith, who previously worked as the Director of Municipal Public Works responsible for enormous projects, claims that the only event he saw attracts this number of opposition, was garbage dumps. The drunken drains also attracted the attention of international media, causing concerns in the town hall.
Public documents show that city officials suggested many options for potential Amazon relocation, including a shopping center about 4 miles up the highway from the current building. However, since December, the mayor of College Station John Nichols wrote in one e -mail, Amazon has not provided any last search status updates. Nichols tells Wired that he still didn’t hear anything last week.
Drawn conclusions
Some residents of the College station who live near the Amazon Drone Depot side say that the fears of the noise and the value of real estate raised by their neighbors are exaggerated. “What did people look like when they came out for the first time?” He says Kim Miller, who heard drones over her yard, and once received a toy for a dog in the air as a gift from someone. “Progress has some disadvantages,” he says.
Raylene Lewis, a real estate agent at NextHome Realty Solutions, who has offers near the drone base, claims that the buyers of the house do not mind the perspective of drones over their heads. He says that more people are curious whether the potential house is in the scope of Prime Air supplies. Lewis’s own house is just outside the circuit, but he says that she would like to employ the service “regardless of whether I want cookies, my medicine, pen and paper for children’s project.”
Lewis believes that Amazon should have been more candid in his activities and should offer a local customer service center for people with questions and fears. Because updates are still hard to get, some residents remain frustrated. Several of them learned about the Amazon fleet only after queries with Wired.
The grounding took place after two failures-one related to rainy weather and other misunderstandings of the operator-a thing of 80 pounds of drones, According to Bloomberg. Stephenson Amazon questions the cause of Pause, saying that he was initiated “safely and properly updated software” and the services will resume FAA consent.
Accidents introduced a modern worry to College Station. “These events really seem that Amazon uses my area as a test zone,” says Monica Williams, a teenager who opposed the company’s expansion plan.
For now, more drones are to hit the sky. In Dallas-Fort Worth, Amazon Rival Wing Waiting for FAA review triple maximum deliveries a day to 30,000. The company is in Florida Searching for reviews To provide up to 60,000 deliveries a day, starting from Walmart Supercenters in the Orlando and Tampa metro areas.
Smith and others at the College station expect that as long as the drones are constantly buzzing near the houses – and the modern versions are becoming more and more still – the set will be minimal. He believes that Amazon has learned a valuable lesson in its city and is glad that the company adapts its course. His garden is certainly elated that he is recovering him.
Additional reports of Aarian Marshall.