亞馬遜推無人機快遞 30分鐘內到貨

Diapers and Kindles delivered to your doorstep not by truck, not by plane or train — but by drone?

你能想象一架無人機，而不是卡車、飛機或火車，將你訂購的尿布、電子閱讀器送到你家門口嗎？

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that this reality may be just four or five years away.

亞馬遜網站首席執行官傑夫·貝索斯稱，這一遠景有望在四、五年內成爲現實。

In a interview with Charlie Rose on CBS’s “60 Minutes” Bezos showed off Amazon-branded drones that he says can travel 10 miles and carry packages weighing up to five pounds to doorsteps in less than 30 minutes.

傑夫·貝索斯日前做客CBS電視臺的《60分鐘》新聞節目，在與主持人查理·羅斯的交談中，傑夫展示了亞馬遜研發的無人機。他稱這臺無人機可以在30分鐘之內行駛10英里距離，將5磅重以下的包裹送貨上門。

“These are octocopters,” Bezos said in the interview. “These are effectively drones, but there’s no reason these can’t be used as delivery vehicles.”

“這是一種八翼無人機，”貝索斯在採訪中說，“它們是非常有效率的無人機，沒有什麼理由它們不能用來送貨。”

You won’t be seeing them anytime soon — the FAA has yet to release rules about how unmanned flying vehicles may be used — but Bezos said he thinks Amazon could start offering a “Prime Air” service within four or five years.

這種無人機目前還不會被廣泛應用，還有待聯邦航空局對無人駕駛飛行器的行爲規範做出相關規定。但是貝索斯稱，四、五年內亞馬遜就應該可以開始提供這種“Prime Air”服務。

“It will work, and it will happen,” Bezos said. The truth is that the FAA will ultimately decide that.

貝索斯說，“這種運輸方式不僅行之有效的，而且具備現實的條件。” 此言是否屬實，最終還得須由聯邦航空局來決定。