Nothing could be as marvelous as receiving your household needs, food, and grocery items straight from drones flying in the sky. To your doorstep, right?
Drone deliveries are gaining massive popularity today. Recently, they just arrived in Texas. Read on for the scoop.
DoorDash x Flytrex
DoorDash isn’t alone as it starts drone deliveries in Texas. It is working with the drones delivering your goods in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Flytrex is a company that is actually exclusive, catering to clients for drone deliveries. They specialize in autonomous drone delivery, offering services wherein drones deliver food from restaurants, directly to your backyards or drop-off locations.
This is Flytrex’s first partnership with a third-party delivery app. However, drone deliveries, of course, are not a first for DoorDash.
They are in partnership with several other drone providers, such as Wing, to offer these types of deliveries in other areas, such as in North Carolina and Virginia.
According to DoorDash’s email to Ridesharing Forum, several participating restaurants, such as The Brass Tap, Papa Johns, and many more, have started moving their items through drones.
Not the first
This partnership between DoorDash and Flytrex will expand the food delivery platform’s niche and drone reach. Right now, drone delivery is only available in select areas of Texas.
Under this partnership, Flytrex will also implement advanced drone traffic control technology that would allow multiple operators to serve within the same area while maintaining safe flight paths, the company told this team.
“The next phase of drone delivery is all about convenience, driven by expanded capabilities that unlock a broader range of use cases,” stated Harrison Shih, the head of product for DoorDash Labs. “Larger payloads and longer operating hours allow us to serve more customers, more efficiently, than ever before. By expanding the operational envelope of autonomous delivery, we’re moving closer to making drone delivery a scalable, reliable option for everyday local commerce.”
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