FunnyJohn Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Ok, so maybe it is slightly premature to hail the end of the food truck era, but here's some news about plans for a mini-copter or tacocopter to deliver in the Bay Area: "According to the bare bones web site, all you have to do is place your order on your iPhone, tap away, and await the TacoCopter." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 One can only imagine what will happen when they start to mount ordinance on the machines to take out the competition while delivering the tacos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielK Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Taco Town! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonRocks Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Ok, so maybe it is slightly premature to hail the end of the food truck era, but here's some news about plans for a mini-copter or tacocopter to deliver in the Bay Area: "According to the bare bones web site, all you have to do is place your order on your iPhone, tap away, and await the TacoCopter." Does it knock on your door, and sit out there hovering? This is about as bizarre as the U.S. Postal Service delivering air mail by stuffing it in a rocket, and blasting it towards its destination. In the Amazing But True category ... it actually happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsDiPesto Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Is there a tip cannister attached? Say, do you think I could use their service to drop a taco on the heads of certain candidates for office? Filling of my choice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunnyJohn Posted March 26, 2012 Author Share Posted March 26, 2012 The more I think about this the more potential difficulties I am imagining. Need to up-armour the birds, countermeasures, vulnerability to ground fire -- I think these things will end up looking like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monavano Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 This strike me as being fraught with peril. What happens when someone gets a taco dropped on them like bird poop, then takes their suit to the dry cleaners and sues them for $8000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MsDiPesto Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 I'm assuming they have some way of keeping their fleet from being stolen. Delivery in wealthy neighborhoods only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe H Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/tacocopter-startup-delivers-tacos-by-unmanned-drone-helicopter_n_1375842.html It ain't going to happen and it shouldn't happen. This is absurd that anyone would take this as a serious attempt at delivering food. I can imagine the first redneck, sitting on his patio with his shotgun nearby, and an unmanned drone laden with tacos flutters down attempting to land feet from his cooler. He didn't order any tacos. He reaches over, picks up the shotgun, and that is the end of the $100,000 drone that delivered them. OK, I'm exaggerating. It's not a redneck. It's a secret service agent and someone at the White House ordered tacos because they didn't want Domino's. The drone would still be shot down. Not a good business plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!" "Not since the Hindenburg tragedy has there been anything like this!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monavano Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I can imagine the first redneck, sitting on his patio with his shotgun nearby, and an unmanned drone laden with tacos flutters down attempting to land feet from his cooler. He didn't order any tacos. He reaches over, picks up the shotgun, and that is the end of the $100,000 drone that delivered them. Joe- i'm laughing because last night I caught up with the latest episode of Harry's Law. Harry Corn (Kathy Bates) sees the "neighborhood UFO" hovering over her house one night, and went straight to her shotgun, loaded it up and blasted it to kingdom come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunnyJohn Posted March 27, 2012 Author Share Posted March 27, 2012 Now this discussion has me recalling what TACOS actually stand for: Teen Age Commies from Outer Space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishinnards Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Hoax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monavano Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 Hoax Well, that doesn't surprise me, although I was looking forward to tacos falling like manna from the sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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