{"id":27179,"date":"2012-03-30T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27179"},"modified":"2012-03-30T12:49:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:49:55","slug":"technology-we-can-use-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27179","title":{"rendered":"Technology We Can Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much of the technology we take for granted today started out as military research, then weaponry, and finally&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?sid=19748145&amp;nid=1014&amp;title=tacocopter-would-deliver-tacos-via-unmanned-drone&amp;s_cid=featured-4\">guided mystery-meat delivery systems<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taco-hungry Americans could order and pay for tacos on their smartphones, which would supply GPS coordinates to the drone. Once ordered, the tacos would be delivered as long as the customer remained in the ordering location.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s more likely <em>after <\/em>the food is delivered, if you catch my drift.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It exists in the Bay Area \u2014 in concept, at least. For now, the Tacocopter, which has existed since July 2011, has been grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration, as would be any unmanned commercial drone. According to FAA regulations, &#8220;unmanned aerial vehicles&#8221; cannot currently be used for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n<p>There are other minor problems with the project, such as its ability to navigate dangerous terrain or to keep the food it carries warm.<\/p>\n<p>That hasn&#8217;t stopped the Tacocopter&#8217;s creators from dreaming big, though. They hope the Tacocopter website will serve as fodder for discussion of the future of food delivery \u2014 think of the implications for tailgating or outdoor barbecuing, for example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another example of senseless regulation stalling progress!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much of the technology we take for granted today started out as military research, then weaponry, and finally&#8230; &#8230;guided mystery-meat delivery systems: Taco-hungry Americans could order and pay for tacos on their smartphones, which would supply GPS coordinates to the drone. Once ordered, the tacos would be delivered as long as the customer remained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27181,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27179\/revisions\/27181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}