Someone in the Domino’s Pizza research and development department has clearly been watching far too many Marvel movies, because over the past year or so they’ve apparently been trying to transform their otherwise-should-be-straightforward department into Stark Industries.
Whereas once the big whiteboard in the department meeting room had “try and find not-shit people to deliver pizzas” written on it permanent marker, nowadays it seems like that’s been crossed off and “maybe spaceships?” has been scrawled up there instead.
To wit, the company has been banging on for a while now about developing driverless, autonomous, air and land drones that would do the delivering for them.
But far from being the fever dreams of a madman, pizza slingers in New Zealand have today made it a reality, delivering a world-first pizza-by-drone to a hungry, if not slightly bemused, customer.
The drone, launched from the Whangaparaoa store, some 25kms north of Auckland, successfully delivered two pizzys – a peri peri chicken pizzy, and something called a cranberry pizza (wut) – by an unmanned winged mechanical death bird to some bloke.
Pizza officials, including Domino’s NZ GM Scott Bush were on hand for this clearly historic occasion, which was beamed around the globe on Facebook Live.
We’re live from the Whangaparaoa store in NZ with DRU Drone by Flirtey and General Manager Scott Bush for our first air delivery!
Posted by Domino’s Australia on Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Look, I don’t want to be a wet blanket or anything here but FOR SHIT’S SAKE ALL IT DOES IS HOVER ABOVE YOUR HOUSE, THEN WINCHES THE PIZZY DOWN ONTO YOUR LAWN?
AND YOU NEED TO HAVE A GIANT TARGET TARP PUT ON YOUR LAWN FIRST?
I get the appeal, I really do; in the throes of an ungodly hangover, I don’t want anyone to see my food-related shame either. But that descent is fucking agonising. What do they want me to do? Stand out on the porch in my undies and guide the bastard in like it’s a 747 approaching a gate?
And to that end, what good is a giant target tarp on the ground when I could cut the middle man out, drawn a bullseye on my face, and have the damned thing Operation Dumbo Drop a full BBQ Meatlovers directly into my gob?
One small step for man, for sure. But we’re still one giant leap away from getting some piping hot ‘za into my biz at warp speed.
The technology, folks. It is still somewhat imperfect.
Source: Domino’s Australia/Facebook.
