Amazon kicked off the drone-delivery arms race nearly two full years ago, but hasn't given us much of an update since. Until now. A new video released by Amazon yesterday shows exactly how the everything store wants its flying deliveries to work, complete with clips of actual flight.

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On the one hand, the process is very simple and predictable: you place an order on your phone, a drone drops it off, you pick it up. But the video also gives a few other interesting details. Jeremy Clarkson—now an Amazon spokesperson after that car show deal, apparently—notes how the drone will fly to "nearly 400 feet," a nod at the maximum height currently allowed by the FAA. We also see that the drone's landing zone would (or at least could) be determined by a little target with the Amazon logo on it, perhaps in addition to tracking you by your phone. Lastly, we see Amazon has adopted a transforming, hybrid copter/plane design much like Google has, though Clarkson notes this is just one of an upcoming "family" of drones, at least one of which will probably be designed for much longer flights than the 15 miles the hybrid design can handle.

Of course for all that info we don't get any details about when this plane would actually launch or how much it would cost—it seems unlikely but not impossible that it would be a free addition to Amazon Prime. But as competitors like Google and Walmart appear to be catching up, it's about time for Amazon to give us a look at its drone-delivery future, even if we'll probably still have to wait a few more years for it to shake out.

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