From: usenet@only.tnx   
      
   On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:33:31 +0000 (UTC), danny burstein    
   wrote:   
   >In <6087042d.4989855@news.dslextreme.com> usenet@only.tnx (Questor) writes:   
   >[snip]   
   >   
   >>Circling back to the OP's query, the issue is whether travel by drone is   
   >>sufficiently feasible to avoid building a network of better roads (i.e.,   
   >>infrastructure).  I think not, as some sort of infrastructure will be   
   required   
   >>to supply enough fuel/energy to power drone flight with passengers.   
   >   
   >otoh, "travel by drone" for... packages of food and other commodities,   
   >is close to advanced enough that a big chunk of "getting into   
   >the car to drive to town and pick up XYZ" can be avoided.   
      
   Drone delivery of essential items like medicine is being tried already,   
   although   
   I don't know in what phase the effort is.  This seems like a feasible albeit   
   occasional use to me.   
      
      
   >So if, SWAG, 75 percent of those trips into civilization can   
   >be avoided, then marginal dirt, or single lane paved, roads   
   >become much more acceptable without needing upgrades.   
      
   I'm envisioning remote, rural communities, and I don't see how they can have   
   the   
   economic wherewithal to support much in the way of buying things in town to   
   begin with unless they have a way to get any natural resources or crops out to   
   a   
   broader market.  And that generally means roads.  I don't think drones are   
   ready   
   to perform that task.  The way I see it, limited drone delivery may ease the   
   hardship of living in the boondocks, but they are not a replacement for good   
   roads to an area that otherwise has the ability to finance their construction.   
      
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