Although Amazon has successfully tested its drone delivery service in a remote area in the UK, doing so in an urban cityscape is lot more challenging. Rest assured that Amazon’s engineers are slaving away at a solution to this complex problem.

Amazon’s much anticipated drone deliveries have finally become reality. Going by a new patent reported by CNN, Amazon’s drone service could deliver your shipment with a parachute. Now wouldn’t that be cool. Although that cool factor could rapidly disappear if you had to repeatedly climb a tree to recover your package.

Yes, as you might imagine, Amazon still has to hurdle a slew of technical and legal challenges before it can fully commence its drone delivery service before you can pick up the package that you ordered from the ground.

So far however, the scene look pretty for its drone delivery service since they have been carried out at controlled locations where a drone can actually land with its cargo. Naturally, it isn’t possible to land drone in any environment since there could be potential mishaps with obstacles, pets and even humans.

According to CNN, Amazon’s patent attempts to solve the issue with drones that release packages from the air which lands on the ground either with a parachute, burst of compressed air or some such mechanism.

It would surprise you to know that Amazon, the king of efficiency, has been beaten by a drone delivery service by 7-Eleven.

The company has reportedly already completed 100 aerial deliveries.

Regardless of which company wins the race of drone delivery services in urban cityscapes, one thing is for sure, our airspace is going to get a lot more crowded.