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Alphabet is re-working its Wing delivery drones to be less noisy
Before Alphabet's Wing drones can start dropping off deliveries all over the globe, the company has to remedy one of the biggest complaints about it first. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the drones are extremely noisy -- someone who lives directly under the drones' path in rural Australia where they're current being tested described the sound they make as "chainsaw gone ballistic." Since the tech will not widely adopted if it's that noisy (especially in dense urban areas) Wing is now developing a quieter drone. The Alphabet subsidiary, which used to be an X Lab project until it became a standalone company in mid-2018, has been testing its drones in Australia since 2014. Apparently, the machines create so much noise that people don't even use their yards anymore.