{"id":767,"date":"2020-04-20T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T08:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/?p=767"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T08:30:11","slug":"alphabets-drone-service-sees-dramatic-increase-in-local-deliveries-of-food-and-medicines-urban-air-mobility-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/actualite-aeronautique\/alphabets-drone-service-sees-dramatic-increase-in-local-deliveries-of-food-and-medicines-urban-air-mobility-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphabet&#8217;s drone service sees \u201cdramatic increase\u201d in local deliveries of food and medicines &#8211; Urban Air Mobility News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Google parent company Alphabet said this week that its Wing drones has seen a \u201cdramatic increase\u201d in delivering food and medicines during the coronavirus\u00a0pandemic in rural Virginia with more than 1,000 deliveries completed in the last two weeks as people face lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<em>bloomberg.com<\/em>, Wing said it is seeing customers order health and wellness items from Walgreens, including medicine, toothpaste and toilet paper, and groceries like pasta, canned foods, fruit cups and baby food.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to support local businesses that aren\u2019t able to open their doors by allowing them to deliver their products directly to customers\u2019 homes,\u201d Wing spokesman Jonathan Bass said. \u201cThe technology is particularly useful at a time when people are homebound in many cases where the need to limit human-to-human contact is important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An example is a local bakery and coffee shop called \u00a0Mockingbird Cafe in Christiansburg, Virginia, which is now selling 50% more pastries via Wing on one weekend than it usually sells in store.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source\u00a0:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanairmobilitynews.com\/medical-pharmaceutical-transport\/covid-19-alphabets-drone-service-sees-dramatic-increase-in-us-deliveries-of-food-and-medicines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alphabet\u2019s drone service sees \u201cdramatic increase\u201d in local deliveries of food and medicines \u2013 Urban Air Mobility News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google parent company Alphabet said this week that its Wing drones has seen a \u201cdramatic increase\u201d in delivering food and medicines during the coronavirus\u00a0pandemic in rural Virginia with more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17,14],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projets.nae.fr\/eco-composite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}