{"id":118694,"date":"2021-01-20T05:42:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/pizza-hut-tests-drone-delivery-to-drop-zones-in-israel"},"modified":"2021-01-20T05:42:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T13:42:16","slug":"pizza-hut-tests-drone-delivery-to-drop-zones-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/pizza-hut-tests-drone-delivery-to-drop-zones-in-israel","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Hut tests drone delivery to drop zones in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Since the dawn of time, humankind has looked to the skies and sought to conquer them. For thousands of years we tried and failed until, at last, we could soar amongst the birds. We built biplanes that danced upon gusts of wind, strapped sails to our back and leapt off fog-drenched mountaintops, launched warplanes into the wild blue yonder to rain terror from above. The heavens were soon streaked with the vapor trails of jumbo jets; the oligarchy used its deep pockets for casual jaunts to the threshold of outer space. And then, with the skies at last firmly in our dominion, we once again turned our eyes upward and declared, \u201cKnow what would look great up there? Pizza.\u201d<\/p>\n

The technology to flood our skies with millions of pizza boxes does not exist just yet, but it\u2019s taken a huge leap forward in Israel, where, The Wall Street Journal <\/em>reports<\/a>, Pizza Hut is launching the world\u2019s first ever full-time drone delivery service. The pilot program is being heavily regulated by the government, and Pizza Hut\u2019s human delivery drivers don\u2019t need to worry about being replaced (yet), as the drones will not be making direct-to-customer drop-offs. Instead, the flying robots will bring multiple orders to designated landing zones outside of Pizza Hut\u2019s normal delivery radius, where they\u2019ll be picked up by a driver who will take the pizzas to their final destinations.<\/p>\n

The drones\u2019 home base will be a Pizza Hut located in Bnei Dror in Northern Israel, and will allow the restaurant to provide delivery service to an additional 7000 households. The Ministry of Transportation has limited the drones\u2019 flight area to about 50 square miles, and each drone\u2019s limited battery life means there\u2019s little chance of one going rogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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