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Speaker 3: All right, the story involves the city of Mesquite and
Speaker 3: surrounding areas. Here in DFW, let's go to Fox four
Speaker 3: Steve Eager and Heather Hayes.
Speaker 4: My crew you a new company that will soon be
Speaker 4: able to deliver up to eight pounds of groceries is
Speaker 4: now over Mesquite.
Speaker 1: Fox for Lori Brown has.
Speaker 5: The story Autonomous drones are providing a new way to
Speaker 5: get instant deliveries and Mesquite.
Speaker 6: Because there's nobody flying the aircraft yet, the system does itself.
Speaker 5: Instead of lowering the drone and dangling a box, zip
Speaker 5: Line has engineered a secondary device, a high tech cooler
Speaker 5: equipped with a propeller.
Speaker 6: An air comes very gently down to your backyard and
Speaker 6: it releases the package and it's back up before you
Speaker 6: even know it.
Speaker 5: The zipline drones remain at around three hundred feet at
Speaker 5: all times during the delivery, high enough that it can
Speaker 5: barely be heard when it is above your home.
Speaker 3: Okay, I get a little more of I want to
Speaker 3: stop it right there. So it's a drone, it's got
Speaker 3: cooler in it. And then when it knows that it's
Speaker 3: above your house, it's three hundred feet up, so a
Speaker 3: football field, right then a zipline lowers the package down
Speaker 3: onto your front or.
Speaker 1: What is this? Okay? So when I think of a zipline,
Speaker 1: I think of something that's connected to two points. This
Speaker 1: is just a drop rope.
Speaker 3: It's a rope that's strong enough to hold the up
Speaker 3: to eight pound package.
Speaker 1: It's like Navy seals drop it out of a helicopter.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: And it looks cool, but there's not a chance in
Speaker 3: hell that this is going to be flawless bright.
Speaker 7: No, no way. Just crowding the airspace alone is complicated.
Speaker 7: Where it lands, is it easy for someone to steal it?
Speaker 7: At the end of March, I saw they were testing
Speaker 7: a drone that was delivering a car battery, and they
Speaker 7: dropped it and it fell through a windshield after a
Speaker 7: lady had just put her toddler in the back seat.
Speaker 1: They crushed the windshield.
Speaker 7: Luckily everybody was okay, But I'm like, this is by
Speaker 7: no means a figured out situation. I would also say
Speaker 7: that this is not a practical situation. What is eight
Speaker 7: pounds of groceries get you?
Speaker 1: Like that is gonna be someone that's just kind of
Speaker 1: ordering something daily. I'm glad you.
Speaker 3: Said that this actually ends up making a little bit
Speaker 3: of sense to me. Okay, and again keep in mind
Speaker 3: though the three hundred feet thing, yeah, football, like, how
Speaker 3: high are we have now? We're three floors.
Speaker 1: Up, so it's about ten feet of about thirty thirty.
Speaker 3: Feet, so yeah, and that means it doesn't make noise,
Speaker 3: so you won't even hear it. So you're gonna hear
Speaker 3: a lady in a second come in talking about how
Speaker 3: she has used this.
Speaker 6: Your app would have told you that if you're inside
Speaker 6: cooking right now, that your package is on your back
Speaker 6: door and the Zipple depart you for you have even
Speaker 6: realized it.
Speaker 5: The deliveries for missing ingredients or last minute birthday party
Speaker 5: gifts can arrive in minutes, and the zip can still
Speaker 5: deliver during rain and certain levels of wind.
Speaker 8: I've done several orders. I was cooking breakfast the other
Speaker 8: day and I needed bacon. I had ran out and
Speaker 8: some biscuits I can order. I can just go online,
Speaker 8: and I did it within twenty minutes. I had my bacon,
Speaker 8: my biscuits and finish my breakfast. It was It was wonderful.
Speaker 3: Right now, if you live with it, Okay, Now, here's
Speaker 3: what I do when I need something. I drive my
Speaker 3: ass to the store.
Speaker 9: See, yeah, I know that's what I thought. It was, like,
Speaker 9: how long does it take for her to go to
Speaker 9: the store pick it up? But this is just like
Speaker 9: us uber eating when we could go out and get
Speaker 9: it ourself.
Speaker 1: But this is also this is a test market, like
Speaker 1: they're prepared for her to order this in the middle
Speaker 1: of her breakfast. You're mean to tell me that if
Speaker 1: every one of the Metroplex suburb skits that Walmart, whoever's
Speaker 1: right on the case, they're gonna have to have a
Speaker 1: lot of drones. They have to have a lot of
Speaker 1: drones and a lot of people. They're loading up the drones.
Speaker 1: I understand what they're promoting. I don't, no, man, I
Speaker 1: don't think so.
Speaker 3: So here is what Walmart is doing right now. This
Speaker 3: is in Mesquite. Now this is going to be a
Speaker 3: moving to other stores. But hear this part.
Speaker 4: Hey, Now, if you live within it two miles in
Speaker 4: the Mesquite Walmart and you order through the zipline app,
Speaker 4: the delivery service is free. And soon it's going to
Speaker 4: be expanded to within ten miles of not only the
Speaker 4: Mesquite Walmart, but several other North Texas Walmart locations, but
Speaker 4: Walmart has not yet said just how long the service
Speaker 4: will remain free. In Sunny Bill Lori Brown, Foxpoorn News.
Speaker 1: Charge your ass.
Speaker 3: Well, there's about five dollars delivery fee on that if
Speaker 3: you want your bacon and biscuits.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but if you're already cooking and you need immediate
Speaker 7: emergency bacon and biscuits, I could do it.
Speaker 1: I could see myself doing it.
Speaker 9: I just said two miles within the Walmart. Though you
Speaker 9: live two miles from the Walmart and you can't just drive.
Speaker 7: You've got other things cooking, or you can't leave. What
Speaker 7: if you've got like a toddler or something, it's just
Speaker 7: taking a nap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to know more about an emergency biscuit situation. Dude,
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta get them, you gotta get them immediately. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys. Oh my god, best guts. Sorry, where's the
Speaker 1: best guts we've ever planned?
Speaker 9: Damn it.
Speaker 3: I'll say this happens every once in a while when
Speaker 3: there's some homemade guacam all we made or something, Oh,
Speaker 3: we don't need chips, and then I get in the
Speaker 3: car and I go to the store and I'm back
Speaker 3: in five minutes with the chips. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I kind of like it. I like the idea of
Speaker 1: KT racing the drones. You know what I'm saying. We
Speaker 1: can really check for efficiency.
Speaker 7: All right, Uh, good stuff there, Yes, thanks everyone, All
Speaker 7: right now, you're doing a wonderful job.
Speaker 1: KT.