![]() ![]() More than 18,000 people have been let go in rolling cuts since last autumn. Now, barely a month after starting deliveries to real customers in those towns, Amazon's drone safety teams in Lockeford and College Station have been decimated by the company's far-reaching layoffs, four current and former employees told Insider.Ĭuts have also deeply affected the safety team in Amazon's Pendleton, Oregon, test site, which has seen a string of crashes, including one in 2021 that sparked a 25-acre brush fire, the employees said.Īmazon is in the midst of its largest-ever layoffs. ![]() In Lockeford, Amazon hosted a "Welcome Picnic," inviting residents to "learn more about how our drones can safely navigate through the sky and conveniently deliver packages right to your backyard," according to a picnic invitation seen by Insider. "Safety is of the utmost importance" to Amazon, a company representative said at that Texas meeting. The possibility of Amazon's nearly-90-pound drone "falling from the sky onto our home, onto our car, onto our children" was nerve-wracking, College Station resident Amina Alikhan said at a public meeting last summer.Īmazon did its best to assuage those anxieties. When Amazon announced last summer that the towns of College Station, Texas, and Lockeford, California, would be its first test sites for package delivery by automated drone, some residents expressed concerns. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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