When flights started early last year, the people who lived closest to the drone warehouse began to smoke because of the noise. People called on the city to do something, but the Texas legislators basically banned cities from adjusting the drones, making local officials helpless.
Smith, who used to be the Director of the City Public Works in charge of major projects, said the only developments he had seen attracting these opposites were landfills. The repellence of unmanned aircraft also attracted the attention of international media, causing concerns at the City Hall.
Public documents show that city officials have proposed many options for Amazon's potential relocation, including a shopping center about 4 miles on the highway from the current building. However, as of December, Mayor College Station John Nichols wrote in an email, Amazon did not share any recent updates about its search status. Nichols told Wired last week, he had not heard anything.
Lesson learned
Some residents of the Station Station lived near the Amazon Depot Depot website said concerns about noise and property caused by their neighbors. “What people like when people go to grass for the first time?” Kim Miller said, who could hear the drone on her front yard and once received a dog toy with air as a gift from someone. Progress has some disadvantages, she said.
Raylene Lewis, a real estate agent at Nexthome Realty Solutions, where a list near the drone, said homebuyers did not seem to worry about the prospect of unmanned aircraft. In fact, many people are curious about whether a potential house is within the scope of delivery of Prime Air, she said. Lewis's private house happened to be outside the circumference, but she said that she loved to use the service even if I wanted to cookie or medicine or pen and paper for a child's project.
Lewis believes that Amazon should have been more frank about his activities and should provide a local customer service center for people with questions and concerns. With the updates is still difficult, some residents are still disappointed. Some of them knew about Amazon's fleet only after wondering from Wired.
Based on two accidents, one related to rainy weather and other wrong media operators of unmanned aircraft about 80 pounds, According to Bloomberg. Amazon's Stephenson disputes the cause of the pause, saying it is started to proceed safely and properly a software update and the services will continue after approving the FAA.
The accident introduced a new worry in College Station. These events actually acted that Amazon was using my neighborhood as a test area, he said, Monica Williams, a teenager opposed the company's expansion plan.
Currently, many drones are ready to hit the sky. In Dallas-Fort Worth, Amazon Rival Wing Waiting for evaluation FAA To triple the maximum delivery daily to 30,000. In Florida, the company is Search and review To provide up to 60,000 delivery daily, starting from Walmart Supercenters in the Orlando and Tampa subway.
Smith and others in College Station hopes that as long as the drones are not constantly stirring near the home and new versions are increasingly quiet, the combination will be minimal. He believes that Amazon has learned a valuable lesson in his city, and he is very happy that the company is adjusting his course. His garden is definitely happy to have him back.
Additional report of Aarian Marshall.