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Amazon can now deliver packages to your car's trunk.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Amrich damiro This is Rich on Tech Daily.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Amazon is expanding its Amazon Key program. Previously, they were
able to open your front door and leave a package inside.
Now they can open your car's trunk and leave a
package in there. Amazon says the new service is live
in thirty seven cities around the nation, including Los Angeles.
But there are some caveats. Let me explain how this
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all works for starters. You have to sign up for
the program, but you don't need any extra hardware for
your car. I'll explain that in a moment. You place
your Amazon order as usual. Then at checkout you choose
the in car delivery option. Amazon's going to give you
a four hour window for your delivery. You just have
to make sure that you park your car in a
publicly accessible place. Amazon will then use GPS to navigate
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to and find your car, and then when they are
within range of your car, the driver requests that your
carr is remotely unlocked. Now this is where the type
of car you have comes into play. Right now, the
service only works with on Star and Volvo on Call,
which means that you have to have a twenty fifteen
or newer Chevy, gmc Buick or Cadillac with an active
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on Star account. Now, not sure what that means, the
active part of that. I want to get some clarification
on that from Amazon, because if you're not paying for OnStar,
you can still have an account with them which lets
you remotely unlock your door.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So I think that should be good.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
But I hope you don't need a paid account because
that would keep a lot of people from using this.
But if you just have to have an active on
Star account, like just with an email address and login,
and that would be pretty cool. Now for Volvo, it's
a twenty fifteen or newer. Amazon says it's going to
add more cars over time. A lot of cars are
becoming connected, so they just have to interface with those
different systems. But these two services alone, according to Amazon,
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represents seven million cars on the road right now, and
Amazon is not.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Charging any extra for the service.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But if you change your mind, you can always reroute
your package to another address. You're going to get a
confirmation text when the package is safely in your car,
and it doesn't necessarily have to be the trunk, although
I'm assuming that's the preferred location for leaving a package
in your car. This is not the first time a
car has been a package delivery location. Various startups here
in the US and Europe have tried the idea, with
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varying degrees of success. But Amazon is obviously now the
biggest and when Amazon does something well, it puts it
in the front and center, and so people take notice.
Bottom line, Amazon really just wants to be everywhere, no
matter what you think about this idea. They want customers
to feel like they can get their stuff no matter what.
You don't have to use this if you don't want to,
if you don't trust it. But for Amazon, more deliveries
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translates into more sales. And yes, theoretically, a bad guy
can watch the Amazon delivery truck pull up to a car,
drop off a package, drive off, and then spring into action,
robbing the package right from the car. But think about it,
what's to stop anyone from doing the same thing with
an Amazon delivery truck in a neighborhood. So at this
point it seems like Amazon's looking for even more ways
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to make more secure package deliveries, and until all homes
are built with a special drop off lockbox for packages.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Your trunk just might be the next best thing. But
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