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Brian Potter

Dealership Uses Drones To Deliver Oil Filters In Under 2 Minutes

  • Jack Demmer Ford moved its drone pilot into live runs, delivering small parts across a 12-mile metro Detroit radius.
  • blueflite provides a tiltrotor drone that can fly autonomously or piloted and includes a parachute.
  • Michigan's Advanced Air Mobility grant gave $740,000, with Jack Demmer adding $117,500.

Jack Demmer Ford's parts counter in Wayne, Michigan, now has an aircraft on call. The dealership group has moved its drone delivery pilot out of test mode and into live commercial runs, ferrying oil filters and other small parts across metro Detroit instead of routing them through traffic.

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