Amazon’s Delivery Drones Are Crashing, and We Finally Know Why

Amazon, millions of dollars in e -commerce, apparently cheap on a major feature installed on drones from six columns. As expected, this is with almost opposite results.

On (light) day the rains in the company’s test scale in Oregon, unmanned aerial drones suddenly stopped their fans in the middle of the flight and fell about 200 feet on the ground. The accidents, which destroy both planes, occurred within minutes of each other.

Now, Bloomberg ReportsWe know why. According to documents from the National Transport Safety Council, bad readings of Lidar’s sensors on board drones led to the belief that they had already landed. Their programs, believing that they were on solid ground, by cutting energy in vain.

But this is not all. After Amazon decided to remove them, drones are no longer with backup sensors that are prepared on old versions. Perhaps this had prevented drones from closing, for each Bloomberg‘s sources.

Amazon denies this line of thinking.

“Bloomberg reports are misleading,” the Amazon spokesman told the newspaper. “Data that assumes that replacing a system with another system would prevent an accident in the past.”

According to NTSB documents, the failed software update of LIDAR sensors made more likely to be canceled due to rain. Lidar is short to detect and range light, and it is a form of technology that uses lasers to wipe the surrounding areas similar to the radar.

A defect may be the main reason, but it seems that it can be easily avoided if Amazon kept the excess system from the previous drone, MK27.

The backup sensors came in the form of two metal hardships at the bottom of the drone called squatting keys. When drones land, depression is on the keys, providing confirmation that it is on solid ground. A source said Bloomberg The MK27 drone is originally designed to confirm the landing only when two of his three sensors agreed.

This is removed with the MK30, and it is not clear. Reducing costs may be one of the reasons, and it is not uncommon to remove excess systems to simplify the device.

This can also be due to a shift in how Amazon intends to provide packages using drones, according to Bloomberg source. MK27 is designed to make delivery processes by landing in the client square, with closed fans to make them safer. MK30 moved away from this and the packages fall from about ten feet in the air.

This is far from the only relapse that Amazon faced while developing drones, which was first Declare Once again in 2013. In 2021, a drone crashed A fire was ignited at the acre level In the state of Oregon, outside of this incidents, many residents who live where drones are tried to simply disturb them. After the last December, Amazon stopped future experiences for several months – although it was Preserve The incidents were not the “main cause” – and only Recently raised pause.

In general, development was slow and the project remains behind the specified date. Currently, Amazon only performs the delivery of drones at College Station, Texas, Tolleson, Arizona.

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