{"id":911,"date":"2013-12-04T23:40:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2013-12-04T23:50:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:50:15","slug":"local-amazon-facility-to-offer-catapult-powered-delivery-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2013\/12\/04\/local-amazon-facility-to-offer-catapult-powered-delivery-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Amazon facility to offer catapult-powered delivery service"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-910\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/amazon_primepult.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-910\" alt=\"Amazon PrimePult\" src=\"http:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/amazon_primepult-300x68.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/amazon_primepult-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/amazon_primepult-1024x233.png 1024w, https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/amazon_primepult.png 1274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon PrimePult<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last Sunday on the CBS television show &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the company&#8217;s intention to offer rapid deliveries using unmanned aerial vehicles, more commonly referred to as &#8220;drones,&#8221; in as early as 2015.<\/p>\n<p>While this is a revolutionary idea for retailers, it overshadowed another delivery innovation from Amazon that is slated to be offered to Amazon Prime customers in Chattanooga in early 2014: a catapult-powered delivery service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drone delivery may still be a few years away,&#8221; said Bezos. &#8220;But we have the technology, today, to offer catapult delivery, which can send packages to your doorstep in literally seconds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The technology, called Amazon PrimePult, will undergo a pilot program at the Chattanooga Amazon Distribution Center, the location of which offers largely unobstructed trajectories to residential areas within a five-mile radius.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The catapult may seem like a low-tech apparatus \u2013 something from the Middle Ages,&#8221; said Bezos. &#8220;But the high-powered, incredibly precise catapults we have developed are on the cutting edge of modern technology, which take into account wind speed and direction readings, taken in real-time from over five hundred anemometers surrounding the facility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our tests have been a resounding success,&#8221; said Bezos. &#8220;Catapult deliveries so far have delivered packages, up to ten pounds in weight, to within five feet of their targets, 99.9% of the time, with only a few mid-air collisions with geese, helicopters and kites.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday on the CBS television show &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced the company&#8217;s intention to offer rapid deliveries using unmanned aerial vehicles, more commonly referred to as &#8220;drones,&#8221; in as early as 2015. While this is a revolutionary idea for retailers, it overshadowed another delivery innovation from Amazon that is slated to be offered to Amazon Prime customers in Chattanooga in early 2014: a catapult-powered delivery service. &#8220;Drone delivery may still be a few years away,&#8221; said Bezos. &#8220;But we have the technology, today, to offer catapult delivery, which can send packages to your doorstep in literally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}