Get ready for the DomiCopter.
Domino’s Pizza has put up a video of what is probably the first pizza delivery via drone. The DomiCopter – the name was selected over “Pepperdroney” — can reportedly carry two large pizzas within a four-mile radius in about ten minutes.
“If anything, it went quicker than a pizza boy,” said the founder of a creative agency brought in by Domino’s. “We were amazed at how easy it was going to be.”
The DomiCopter was controlled manually in this trial run, but the company hopes to be able to plug in GPS coordinates that will allow the drones to automatically fly to the customer in the future.
Domino’s still has some time to work out the kinks: Commercial drones won’t be legal in the United States until 2015. The company also wants to enhance the drone to carry other items, such as two-liter soda bottles.
Gives a whole new meaning to Rand Paul’s questions about if Americans are safe from drones in a cafe or restaurant.
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