Amazon will now deliver packages to the trunk of your car New service in collaboration with GM and Volvo will launch in 37 cities in the US
12Amazon announced today a new service that gives its couriers access to a person’s vehicle for the purpose of leaving package deliveries inside. But rather than use smart locks and a cloud-connected camera to gain entry, Amazon wants to use the connected technologies embedded in many modern vehicles today. The company is launching this new service in partnership with two major automakers — General Motors and Volvo — and will be rolling out in 37 cities in the US starting today.
/giphy what could possibly go wrong?
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I thought this was something from The Onion.
… conflicted. On one hand it’s cool for deliveries, on the other I’m very skeptical of the reach Amazon has.
@Targaryen Seems like a better idea than trying to deliver goats using drones…
@daveinwarsh Are people wanting goats via drone? New term: Dronegoats.
@daveinwarsh @Targaryen
They better not steal my sub…or my spare tire.
Amazon can get into homes and cars, google has everyone’s passwords for everything… just need them to merge and we can have a new totalitarian government.
If it happens, I am going to get so fucking mad at the first person who talks about the trains running on time.
@Seeds Amazon (Alexa) also hears everything you say.
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@Seeds
Unless one doesn’t save their passwords with Google…
@PlacidPenguin chrome is the one that I think covers most of the world.
@Seeds
I don’t save my passwords to Chrome though.
@PlacidPenguin @Seeds
but you type some of them in no?
When i discovered the www or what it was back in about 1996 i knew my privacy was dead.
everyone else should too
My 3-goat order arrived!
Soylent Green is people.
In the future when everyone has a self-driving car, our cars will just go to an Amazon hub to pick up our packages. Instead of wondering why your kid is sneaking back home at 3 AM, you will be upset about your car. When you confront it, it will show you the package, and you will say: “But it is only 6 miles to the Amazon hub, and you have put more than a hundred miles on yourself! You have some explaining to do! And don’t tell me you stopped for an oil change because you just had one last week.” But when you try to turn around and walk away in a huff, you will trip over the Amazon robot that follows you everywhere. Fortunately, it knows how to call an ambulance. Unfortunately, the ambulance is an autonomous vehicle, and has no way to lift your body into itself, even with the help of the robot, so you die on the garage floor. The robot calls your robot floor vacuum to clean up the blood, and they go about their business as usual, because all of your bills are paid by automatic transfers from your bank account and they will have recharges for months without you. Happy ending!
@rockblossom You must read this short story. There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradury
@rockblossom In my future you just 3D print what ya need, man! I ain’t worked out if you need to go to the store for the raw materials or if they will be delivered in bulk like coal down a chute.
@Pavlov @rockblossom I’m sitting here watching the 3D print people on the season 2 premiere of West World.
Someday soon we’re not going to have Republicans and Democrats. Our two parties will be Amazon and Disney.
@walarney And Monsanto.
This is fucking stupid. It is almost dumber than Amazon allowing me to check the package tracking page of an order and see in real time where my driver is in relation to me on a map, how many packages the driver is dropping before he gets to me and where he has stopped and for how long. Which I can do right now. Idiots.
@Pavlov
/giphy Bravo!
/giphy body in car trunk
@ruouttaurmind I love her blissful expression.
I want a replicator.
Any chance of them opening the wrong car?