--- title: "Uber Eats Will Start Making Drone Deliveries This Summer" description: "Uber is officially starting to make Uber Eats food deliveries by drone as part of a limited trial in San Diego this summer according to Bloomberg." date: "2019-06-12" modified: "2019-06-12" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/uber-eats-drone-deliveries-san-diego" categories: - "Drones" - "Robotics" - "Robots and Machines" tags: - "drone delivery" - "the digest" - "Uber" - "uber eats" --- # Uber Eats Will Start Making Drone Deliveries This Summer ![Uber is officially starting to make Uber Eats food deliveries by drone as part of a limited trial in San Diego this summer according to Bloomberg.]() *\Image: Uber/Victor Tangermann\* ## Drone Burger Uber is officially starting Uber Eats food deliveries by drone as part of a limited trial in San Diego this summer, [according to *Bloomberg*](). Uber's drone-focused subsidiary Uber Elevate showed off a four-foot-long drone that holds its fast food payload close to its underbelly. "We don’t need to get drones direct to our customer, we just have to get it close," Luke Fischer, Uber Elevate’s head of flight operations, said during a Wednesday conference in DC, [according to *Forbes*](). ## McDrone The drones will reportedly land on designated landing pads where couriers will pick them up to cover the last mile. Uber is also experimenting with landing the drones on parked Uber cars. For the time being, Uber partnered with McDonald's but operations will expand to other food joints as well, *Forbes* reports. ## Uber's Deliver Uber is eyeing San Diego for testing drone deliveries because of the calm and sunny weather. But more importantly, the Federal Aviation Association chose San Diego as one of ten locations to test commercial drones as part of the federal unmanned aircraft system [Integration Pilot Program](). "What’s convinced me on drone delivery is to see how Uber Eats has grown," Eric Allison, head of Uber Elevate, told *Bloomberg*. "Our customers want selection, quality, and ­efficiency — all areas that improve with drone delivery." **READ MORE:** [Uber Wants Your Next Big Mac to Be Delivered by Drone]() \[*Bloomberg*\] **More on drone deliveries:** *[UPS Is Now Using Drones to Deliver Blood to a Hospital]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()