Food delivery agents generally ride a bicycle or a motorbike to deliver the parcel at your doorstep. But this Zomato executive built a drone for faster deliveries of food. Yes, you heard that right. Sohan Rai built the drone after becoming frustrated with the long distances he had to travel. The video posted on social media by Sohan explains how and what motivated him to build the drone.
When Rai became a Zomato delivery agent for a day, he was tired of working long hours and constantly getting stuck in traffic. It is then that the idea of constructing a drone struck his mind. In the video shared on Instagram, Rai can bee seen constructing the drone and testing it before using it for deliveries.
"I wanted to put my skills into use and build an autonomous drone which could deliver a pizza directly to a home, without having a pilot. Here, I have built the drone with a lot of Jugaad, and it would be a lot better when it is commercial. This is an experiment and was conducted with safety and precautions,” read the caption of the post.
Since being shared, the video has amassed 7.4 million views, 1,208,219 likes and tons of comments.
"This is future… but in india you will not get your drone back,' commented one user on the post
"Next time you see something like UFO in the sky, it's not aliens!! It's just a drone on work delivering the pizza!," joked another user.
While a third wrote, "Nice… but while trying to solve the problem of the delivery guy. You kind of killed his job."
"Crazy I want this drone delivery right now," wrote a fourth on seeing the video