Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos revealed his plan to use drones to deliver packages to the company’s customers in the near future on Sunday.
“These are effectively drones but there’s no reason that they can’t be used as delivery vehicles,” he told Charlie Rose on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” “I know this looks like science fiction. It’s not.”
Bezos said the drones would enable Amazon to “do half hour delivery.”
“And we can carry objects, we think, up to five pounds, which covers 86 percent of the items that we deliver,” he said.
Bezos said that the drones couldn’t realistically be launched until 2015, but he was hopeful that they could be incorporated into Amazon’s operation in four or five years.
“I think, I, I am, I’m an optimist Charlie,” he said. “I know it can’t be before 2015, because that’s the earliest we could get the rules from the FAA. My guess is that’s — that’s probably a little optimistic. But could it be, you know, four, five years? I think so. It will work, and it will happen, and it’s gonna be a lot of fun.”
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