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Title: Faster Food
Post by: Rat Catcher on February 24, 2020, 12:36:21 pm
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/dublin-become-first-country-europe-17797522 (https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/dublin-become-first-country-europe-17797522)

Dublin to become first city in Europe to offer fast food delivery by drone

The service is expected to launch next month

By Sylvia Pownall
22:41, 22 FEB 2020

Europe's first fast food delivery service by drone will start in south Dublin in a matter of weeks, according to a leading tech company.

Manna Aero founder Bobby Healy predicted huge demand for the service when it is launched in a south Dublin suburb with 30,000 people in March.

Speaking on ‘The Big Tech Show’ podcast, Mr Healy said drones would deliver food from several chains to your door inside of three minutes.

He revealed: “Camile Thai is a partner on the food side. Next Tuesday, we will formally announce the name of a major online food player that everybody knows.”

He said that “major online food player’s” delivery service app would have a new drone symbol.

He added: “You’ll open the app and, in the case of Camile Thai, it will offer for the food to be picked up by drone.

“If you order by drone it will be delivered in less than three minutes.”

Earlier this month, Camile Thai chief executive Brody Sweeney said the Manna Aero drone delivery system would allow customers to pick a landing area around their home, such as a patio or driveway.

Mr Healy, the former chief technology officer of CarTrawler, said the Irish Aviation Authority had been supportive of the initiative.

He said: “We’re going to open it up to about 30,000 people to begin with.

“What we expect to happen is that there’ll be too much demand and so we’ll have to restrict it in some way.

“But anyone who wants to see it can just come along and see it happening. It will be in a public place.”

Mr Healy recently revealed his ambition to expand to 50,000 delivery drones for the Irish and UK markets.

Manna Aero uses “custom-designed aviation-grade drones” built in Europe and the US.
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: mercenary for hire on February 24, 2020, 01:17:22 pm
I dunno how this is gonna happen.I got a loan of a drone recently and about 85% of Dublin appears to be a no go area.Anything near Prisons or Garda stations or anything sensitive is illegal to fly over.There's one corner of the Phoenix park and a few beaches but the drones are mostly useless.
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: Rat Catcher on February 24, 2020, 01:23:30 pm
They seem to have a plan! To be honest I wouldn't fancy their chances of getting the food to the intended client or getting their drones back to the depot in a lot of the council built housing schemes I work up above in Dublin.
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: Octavia1 on February 24, 2020, 01:35:38 pm
They seem to have a plan! To be honest I wouldn't fancy their chances of getting the food to the intended client or getting their drones back to the depot in a lot of the council built housing schemes I work up above in Dublin.
I got stoned out of it by bout 25 retatarded chimpanzees with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in darndale twice .....and not once did they hit me Octavia........
So the drones wont have any trouble ......
Got stoned out of it in ballbrack once by cople cnuts who didnt pay me ...I introduced me mate Wilson to them .....they didnt like him atall ....but they cudny hit me Octavia neither .....
There was something chitty chitty bang or herbieske bout that car ....spiritual it was
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: mercenary for hire on February 24, 2020, 01:36:47 pm
I don't think the general public will tolerate them buzzing over their houses with HD cameras.The food delivery ones will be the size of a washing machine.Maybe they mean the ones on the ground like they use in the UK.

When I was testing the drone from the sofa there's nothing more alarming than having a device with multiple plastic blades flying in your face.They sound like a garden strimmer.Not very relaxing at all.

Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: Rat Catcher on February 24, 2020, 01:38:55 pm
Did you figure a way of making it paint the walls?
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: Shallowhal on February 24, 2020, 02:14:39 pm
His missus hasn't even figured out how to get him to paint the walls.
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: mercenary for hire on February 24, 2020, 02:18:14 pm
Unfortunately not lads.I did consider the Mr.Bean method at one point.
https://youtu.be/T9MAmWnOznI
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: john m on February 24, 2020, 04:10:34 pm
Nadger Muldowneys 16 kids will get a big stick and knock them things out of the sky if they think they will get something to eat .
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: john m on February 24, 2020, 04:14:32 pm
Big Dommos other brother from another mother races Pigeons if one of them Drones interfears with his birds he will burn down the chipper that owns the drone .I wonder will they do deliveries to Killinarden ?
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: silverbullet on February 24, 2020, 05:55:23 pm
The drones around my way are mostly Pakistani.
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: Rat Catcher on February 25, 2020, 12:21:28 pm
Can you imagine Coolock Gardai driving around looking for a chicken curry and a 1/4 pounder with chips and a can... oh wait, isn't that what they spend most of their time at already...
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: john m on February 25, 2020, 12:35:43 pm
Big Dommos Brother drinks with a Priest on Wednesdays and Fridays down the Pigeon Club .I was talking to him last night in the Chipper and suggested he should tell his Priest buddie about drones .He could then send a text to the Pope suggesting delivering holy communion by drone to make up for the lack of Priests .Thinking like that could get a Priest a promotion to Bishop .
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: The Liffey Lip on February 25, 2020, 01:20:55 pm
Nadger Muldowneys 16 kids will get a big stick and knock them things out of the sky if they think they will get something to eat .

Running low on originals....
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: Octavia1 on February 25, 2020, 01:38:02 pm
It'll be interesting in cople years to see all the drug dealers round darndale with a pitbull on a lead in one hand an a bald eagle on the other to intercept the drug laden drones flying all over the kip delivering the junkies ther daily dosage
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: silverbullet on February 25, 2020, 07:57:22 pm
It'll be interesting in cople years to see all the drug dealers round darndale with a pitbull on a lead in one hand an a bald eagle on the other to intercept the drug laden drones flying all over the kip delivering the junkies ther daily dosage
That's how they get drugs into the exercise yard of the Joy.
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: The Liffey Lip on February 26, 2020, 08:02:18 am
Dinners from the laboratory....


https://www.thejournal.ie/river/lab-grown-dinners-and-3d-printed-houses-heres-how-tech-could-transform-our-lives-in-the-future-2477540-Feb2020/ (https://www.thejournal.ie/river/lab-grown-dinners-and-3d-printed-houses-heres-how-tech-could-transform-our-lives-in-the-future-2477540-Feb2020/)
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: Octavia1 on February 26, 2020, 12:49:09 pm
https://www.facebook.com/382085809472/posts/10157577601194473/ (https://www.facebook.com/382085809472/posts/10157577601194473/)
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: TheDevilHimself on February 26, 2020, 01:12:02 pm
My days of paying for takeouts are nearly over ! lol
very  soon I'll be able to go out in the evening with my trusty slingshot and shoot down my grub !
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: john m on February 26, 2020, 02:14:23 pm
Chinease in Inchicore done fast food Curried Greyhound .
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: watty on February 26, 2020, 05:36:46 pm
Irish Aviation Authority questions new Dublin food drone delivery service (https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/irish-aviation-authority-questions-new-dublin-food-drone-delivery-service-38992885.html)

'Tis a trial limited to UCD campus.  Food cooked on UCD campus and delivered to central location on UCD campus.  Oh yeah, and it won't work at night...
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: stonethecrows on February 27, 2020, 09:09:45 am
Chinease in Inchicore done fast food Curried Greyhound .
I'd say it was very fast
Title: Re: Faster Food
Post by: Shallowhal on February 27, 2020, 02:49:08 pm
Chinease in Inchicore done fast food Curried Greyhound .
I'd say it was very fast

Indeed....and it'll go through ye like the Luas!!