Wing has been making progress with tests involving its dronedelivery service, but a recent accident highlights some of the challenges facing such projects.
Google sister company Wing has been making steady progress with tests involving its delivery drone in Australia, but a recent accident highlights some of the challenges facing such pilot projects as they attempt to go mainstream.
The crash itself didn’t knock out the supply, but operator Energex decided to switch it off so it could safely examine the extent of the damage caused by the accident, ABC reported. The outage lasted 45 minutes for most of those affected, though 300 customers located near to the accident site had to wait three hours for the service to be restored.
The spokesperson added: “We immediately reported this to Energex, who attended the location. Two hours later, during the retrieval process, there was a power outage in the area.” Last year, Wing said Logan City had “a strong claim to be the drone-delivery capital of the world” for the large number of deliveries — around 4,000 a week — that its drones were making in the area.
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