{"id":7645,"date":"2016-07-26T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2016-08-09T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:07:17","slug":"the-revolution-really-is-here-yeah-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/26\/the-revolution-really-is-here-yeah-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revolution Is Really Here! Yeah, baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/07\/22\/7-eleven-drone-flirtey-slurpee\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from FORTUNE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>7-Eleven Just Used a Drone to Deliver a Chicken Sandwich and Slurpees<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a class=\"article-byline-author\" href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/author\/jonathan-vanian\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Vanian<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/7-11-drone.png?w=840&amp;h=485&amp;crop=1\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Image\u00a0by\u00a0Flirtey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another milestone in drone deliveries.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 7-Eleven customer\u2019s order for Slurpees, a chicken sandwich, donuts, hot coffee, and candy will forever go down in history.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it remarkable is that the convenience store chain used a drone to deliver the order to a family in Reno, Nev., 7-Eleven\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theautochannel.com\/news\/2016\/07\/22\/263246-7-eleven-teams-with-flirtey-for-first-ever-faa-approved.html\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>\u00a0on Friday. The company partnered with drone startup Flirtey for the delivery, which the companies said was the first time a drone has legally delivered a package to a U.S. resident who placed an order from a retailer.<\/p>\n<p>But the drone delivery wasn\u2019t a casual affair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis delivery required special flight planning, risk analysis, and detailed flight procedures ensuring residential safety and privacy were equally integrated,\u201d Chris Walach, the director of operations for the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS), said in a statement. The NIAS is a Nevada government-backed non-profit autonomous vehicle advocacy group that helped oversee the delivery.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/07\/22\/7-eleven-drone-flirtey-slurpee\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at FORTUNE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from FORTUNE 7-Eleven Just Used a Drone to Deliver a Chicken Sandwich and Slurpees by\u00a0Jonathan Vanian Image\u00a0by\u00a0Flirtey Another milestone in drone deliveries.\u00a0 A 7-Eleven customer\u2019s order for Slurpees, a chicken sandwich, donuts, hot coffee, and candy will forever go down in history. What makes it remarkable is that the convenience store chain used a drone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}