Comment by Eagle on February 8, 2013 at 8:42pm

Good luck US North East coast.  Here we are masters of the shovel... but seriously I wish you the best. Last I heard was 60 cm... lots of white stuff... hang on guys.

Comment by Peter Meister on February 8, 2013 at 9:55pm

Is that a kadet mkIi ? ;)

Assistant Admin Comment by Joshua Johnson on February 8, 2013 at 10:03pm

 I love it Matthew! This is probably one of the best ideas and greatest things I've ever seen anyone do on Diydrones.com Keep it up!

Comment by Mark on February 8, 2013 at 10:39pm

I wish Governors of the states that asked not to use public roads would substitute prices on good winter tires instead of demolishing the nature with salt substitutes that cost a fortune and do damage to the water, nature and the cars (which in-turn damage the nature even further).

I have no problem driving my Civic through 1 ft of snow on proper tires and do not care for the ice on a road.

Sorry for being slightly off-topic.

Comment by Peter Meister on February 8, 2013 at 10:47pm

They salt all the time in east coast, I agree the damage is huge to mother nature.

Comment by LanMark on February 8, 2013 at 11:43pm

Sorry I can't get paid to fly.. FAA says no commercial flying.. Now I guess it is a contest.. Hummmm... Aerial roof inspection time. Too bad I am no longer out on the east coast

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on February 8, 2013 at 11:43pm

Brilliant idea Matthew I love it.

Comment by Craig Burden on February 9, 2013 at 1:38am

If I was in the North East, let alone the US I would help out. Good luck!

Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on February 9, 2013 at 7:42am

I tried to use my helicopter to plow the driveway.  It didn't work out too well.  Too bad, there goes that idea. ;)

@Mark:  I agree 100% with what you're saying.

Or even better, how about passing a law requiring minimum standards be met for a tire to be called "All Seasons".  There are no regulations on this.  It is basically up to the tire manufacturers' discretion.  And I can say, "all season" tires have been getting worse and worse for the past 10-20 years.  Used to be you could get away with all-seasons.  But now, they are absolutely terrible.  Meanwhile, winter tires have gotten vastly better than they ever were before, so the performance difference between all-season and winter is wider than ever.  

The problem is most consumers don't really pay attention to the performance of the all-season tires on the car when they are shopping.  Nobody test drives a car in a snowstorm.  So the manufacturers and car makers choose tires based on them riding smoothly, fuel economy, and low noise.  This is done at the detriment of all-season snow performance.

Developer Comment by John Arne Birkeland on February 9, 2013 at 8:28am

Mail delivery. No, I am serious. The technology isn't mature enough yet, not even by a long shot. But if you try to look into the not so distant future it's one of those obvious things that UAV's could do very efficiently once you have reached a level of technological maturity. Imagine some kind of standardized package shape/size and delivery catch system at your front porch. Then the copter/hover thingy would just drop from the sky do a quick laser scan do make sure it would not hit anything and neatly drop the package into the catch system and fly of into the sky again. Then multiply by hundreds or even thousands of UAV's doing this using flocking to avoid collisions and logistics for most efficient delivery routes. Sounds like some crazy sci-fi story. But even with today' technology, there is no technical barrier making this impossible. Impractical perhaps because of current battery energy density rates, but not impossible. Making the system robust to handle unforeseen events would also be a big challenge. But still I think the main obstacles would not be technology, but public opinion and the cost of building such a system.

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