In Reykjavik earned delivery drones

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Flytrex Startup based in Israel, decided to open a delivery service drones in the capital of Iceland . You can order any store, so that his goods will be to deliver the real drones couriers.

The city has a fairly large Bay, to go around that truck long and expensive, but the drones can quickly fly over it and then leave the cargo area, where it will pick up couriers by car. Online store AA already using the services of an Israeli company by the end of the year hopes to organize delivery of goods direct to doorstep customers, but while Flytrex failed to obtain from the authorities permission.

Using drones couriers, according to representatives of the online store Aha, will significantly save on shipping. The benefit can be up to 60 percent. Now drones make up to ten flights every day, but over time it is planned to double the number of flights, because the area served drones, has more than eight thousand customers of the store.

Using drones to deliver goods — promising direction to develop and major shopping hubs. In the past year to test the delivery using the Amazon quadcopters began actively studying the possibility of upgrading their courier service.

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