DoorDash 已经公布了 DoorDash Air 的飞机，并将在加利福尼亚北部与 Chipotle 和 Popeyes 开始试点配送。Manna 在都柏林和科克完成了超过 30 万次配送后，于六月因缺乏国家政策而暂停了爱尔兰业务，并正在俄克拉荷马州建设工厂。
DoorDash has unveiled the aircraft behind DoorDash Air and will begin pilot deliveries in Northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes. Manna, which flew more than 300,000 deliveries from Dublin and Cork, paused Irish operations in June for want of a national policy and is building a factory in Oklahoma.
DoorDash 已公布其自有无人机服务所使用的飞机，计划在加利福尼亚北部与 Chipotle 和 Popeyes 开始运营。欧洲最大的无人机配送公司本夏季则做了相反的事情。Manna 在都柏林和科克完成了 30 万单订单后停运，并正在俄克拉荷马州建设工厂。
DoorDash has unveiled the aircraft behind its own drone service, starting in Northern California with Chipotle and Popeyes. Europe’s largest drone delivery company spent this summer doing the opposite. Manna flew 300,000 orders over Dublin and Cork, stopped, and is building a factory in Oklahoma.
DoorDash 的飞机配备了六个慢速旋转的螺旋桨和一台绞盘，在配送高度时发出的声音大致类似于驶过的汽车。约 80% 的餐厅订单轻巧且体积小，足以被空中配送。
The DoorDash aircraft has six slow-spinning propellers and a winch, and at delivery height sounds roughly like a passing car. About 80% of its restaurant orders are light and small enough to fly.
早期测试显示，餐厅到门口的平均配送时间不到五分钟。负责 DoorDash Air 的 Harrison Shih 表示，团队首先关注当地企业的实际运营方式，而不是从飞机开始。
Early tests put restaurant-to-door times under five minutes on average. Harrison Shih, who heads DoorDash Air, said the team began with how local businesses actually operate rather than with the aircraft.
这两个数字均为 DoorDash 自行估算，基于有限的距离和样本周期，公司表示配送时间并不保证。
Both figures are DoorDash’s own estimates, drawn from limited distances and sample periods, and the company says delivery times are not guaranteed.
监管立场比发布所暗示的更为严格。DoorDash 在七月获得了 Part 135 认证，成为第八家美国运营商，但没有权利在视距之外飞行。
The regulatory position is narrower than the launch suggests. DoorDash took Part 135 certification in July as the eighth American operator, without rights to fly beyond visual line of sight.
没有这些权限，无人机只能进行短距离受控跳跃，而非构建网络。每个运营商最终都会遇到这一壁垒。
Without those, drones make short supervised hops rather than a network. Every operator meets that wall eventually.
Manna 面临的是另一种挑战。该爱尔兰公司为 120 多家企业完成了超过 30 万次配送，六月暂停运营，并正在塔尔萨建设一座工厂，预计雇佣约 1,000 名工人。
Manna met a different one. The Irish company flew more than 300,000 deliveries for over 120 businesses, paused in June, and is now building a factory in Tulsa for around 1,000 workers.
其首席执行官 Bobby Healy 表示，爱尔兰缺乏明确的国家政策，公司无法在没有政策的情况下扩张。他说，美国拥有所有人都想要的市场。
Bobby Healy, its chief executive, said Ireland had no clear national policy and the company could not scale without one. The United States, he said, has the market everybody wants.
目前，这些技术和服务还尚未在欧洲市场普及；尽管 DoorDash 控股了 Deliveroo 和 Wolt（这两家公司业务覆盖了 40 多个国家），但相关的研发与生产活动仍集中在爱尔兰。至于无人机配送服务，其技术应用尚未在欧洲市场展开。
None of this is European yet, although DoorDash owns Deliveroo and Wolt across more than 40 countries. Research and manufacturing stay in Ireland. The flying does not.
Uber 也从另一个角度得出了类似的结论：该公司于 2 月份在自家平台上首次实现了无人机配送服务。
Uber reached the same conclusion from the other direction,g Manna in February for the first drone deliveries on a European platform.
同一次 DoorDash 的技术合作还促使苹果公司在自己的“消息”（Messages）应用程序中加入了订单处理功能；此外，Macy’s、The North Face 和 Vans 也加入了 DoorDash 的电商平台，但用户需要支付 8 美元的退货费用。
The same DoorDash event produced an ordering agent inside Apple’s Messages app, along with Macy’s, The North Face and Vans on its marketplace and an $8 returns fee.
DoorDash 表示，通过其地面配送机器人（Dot）以及与 Alphabet 的 Wing 和以色列的 Flytrex 等公司合作的无人机，该公司已经完成了数十万次自主配送任务。
DoorDash says it has completed hundreds of thousands of autonomous deliveries across its ground robot Dot and its drone partners, which include Alphabet’s Wing and Israel’s Flytrex.
Manna 公司在相关政策失效之前，也独立完成了 30 万次无人机配送任务。不过，导致项目失败的原因并非无人机本身，而是其他技术或管理方面的问题。
Manna managed 300,000 on its own before the policy ran out. The aircraft was not the part that failed.