Amazon Drones Keep Dropping Packages Into Customer Pools and Ponds

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Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery service has been caught on video dropping packages directly into customers' swimming pools on multiple occasions. In one recent incident shared by ABC7 News Bay Area, a drone hovered over a Texas customer's pool before releasing its package straight into the water. A similar event was recorded last July in Arizona, where a drone's propeller downwash blew a delivered package into a nearby pool. These mishaps come as Amazon prepares to expand its drone delivery program to 500 cities across the United States. The repeated incidents raise questions about the reliability and precision of autonomous drone deliveries in residential areas.

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