A hurricane is devastating the Americas recently. She’s Melissa, making a landfall in the Jamaican vicinity, but now headed towards the area that’s Cuba. This catastrophe has caused people to evacuate swiftly. So far, according to Reuters, there are no fatalities, as of this time of research.
The world’s top eCommerce platform, Amazon, has decided to extend its hand to the victims of the hurricane and those affected. Read on for the scoop.
In collaboration with the United Nations
To combat the strongest storm that has hit Jamaica, Amazon is working closely with the agencies of the United Nations, gradually, to ensure that communities in Jamaica and in the Caribbean areas get the emergency supplies and technological resources they need to recover as quickly as possible from the destructive hurricane, a slow-moving storm with its historic strength.
Non-profits are also joining this effort. In Georgia, disaster relief hubs are already stocked with tarps, blankets, medical supplies, and other essential emergency items, allowing the eCommerce website to support nearby disaster-impacted communities in just a few moments.
Plus, there are also technology advisors to help communities restore electricity and Internet connection as soon as possible while the storm passes. Hurricane Melissa is bound to cause catastrophic infrastructure damage and isolate communities.
Not the deputy, but the disaster head of Amazon, Abe Diaz, “My heart is with everyone in Melissa’s path. As someone who grew up in Puerto Rico, I’ve experienced the devastating damage hurricanes like Melissa can inflict, but I’ve also experienced the power of communities acting together for a common cause.”
It begins with listening to local organizations on what the victims really need, Diaz is saying, too. Donated emergency supplies to the disaster relief hub would utilize the logistics capabilities of Amazon to reach communities in the quickest time possible. Very incredible, right?
Amazon’s robotics systems for driving experiences
In other news for Amazon deliveries, the company is aiming to enhance the experiences of drivers via equipment, particularly smart delivery glasses. Such eyewear would help couriers focus on their surroundings, more easily identify hazards, and navigate efficiently to the passengers’ doorsteps.
These are the features of the smart eyewear for such drivers. There will be a hands-free process to reduce reliance on their mobile gadgets, so that these accessories would help drivers locate, as well as scan packages, to follow “turn-by-turn walking directions” to their passengers’ destinations, which could be handy in the navigation of complex environments, such as apartment buildings.
Amazon is like saying that they are looking forward to future versions of this driver’s eyewear to provide real-time to deflect detection, wherein they could help notify drivers if they drop packages suddenly at their customers’ doorsteps that do not correspond with house or apartment numbers on packages, detect hazards like low light and lens adjustments, notifying nuisances, such as pets around yards, and others.
“People are scared. Memories of Hurricane Gilbert run deep, and there is frustration that Jamaica continues to face the worst consequences of a climate crisis we did not cause,” a humanitarian organization told Ridesharing Forum.
Following are the countries and regions that Hurricane Melissa has struck: Cuba, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and other islands in the Caribbean. For more delivery news, sign up for that account on this Ridesharing Forum website.