There's this new podcast What's your problem? from Pushkin Industries, about the big problems entrepreneurs face and try to tackle, and one of their first episodes was about Zipline:
The big challenge they talk about is bringing the service (which already works in Rwanda) to the US, where aviation regulation is very different.
(Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, about "awful human error, tragic catastrophes, daring heists and hilarious fiascos" and what one can learn from them is also entertaining and informative.)
I live in a region of the United States that is significantly less populated than Rwanda (larger, a few hundred thousand residents) and don't see what the opportunity would be in health care.
I guess you could discard less perishable products if they were moved around for use.
Why not say why if you think there is something interesting over there? Don't assume I care to listen to 25 minutes of whatever to maybe figure out what you think is interesting about a podcast.
Listening to a couple minutes, it sounds like they talk about expired medicine. Great. In any case, I don't see that there is really much of a market for moving 4 pounds at 60 miles an hour in the US. We have decent roads everywhere and the resources to have extra things where they might be needed.
A concrete example. Like I say, I live in a region that is larger than Rwanda, with something like 1/75 of the population density. There is a hospital with an emergency room in town here, the regional hospital is about 55 miles away in a straight line, a 75 minute drive if you don't speed, and then a real city is about 100 miles away in a straight line, a 2 hour drive if you don't speed (and it's similar for most of population in the region, living close to an emergency hospital and not all that far from a larger hospital).
What logistics are you going to institute where frequent small deliveries make a difference compared to regular vehicle based deliveries?
I guess if it is cheap it can be used for home deliveries.
https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/launching-drone-delivery/
https://www.pushkin.fm/show/whats-your-problem/
The big challenge they talk about is bringing the service (which already works in Rwanda) to the US, where aviation regulation is very different.
(Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, about "awful human error, tragic catastrophes, daring heists and hilarious fiascos" and what one can learn from them is also entertaining and informative.)