While customers will receive a text from the droneup Quest Diagnostics (DGX) Testing is on its way. And depending on where the cars and trees are there, the kit will land on people’s driveways, front sidewalks or backyards. Delivery, which will take less than five minutes, will be free.

“We hope that the drone delivery of self-storage kits will shape the large-scale contactless testing capability and continue to promote Walmart’s innovative ways of using drone delivery in the future,” said Tom W. Ward, senior vice president of consumer products at Walmart. A blog post.

And there are limitations to the program. Drone delivery is only available “between supplies” between 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., and in single-family homes. And delivery can be prevented by “expected physical barriers, power lines, trees, cars or the weather.”

In other words, if you need a Covid-19 test on a rainy day, it probably won’t come by drone.

For failing to deliver the minimum, Quest Diagnostics said delivery areas would be “surveyed in real time” in advance.

The Covid-19 test drone program is just one part of Walmart’s experiments with drones.

“We know it will be a while before we see the millions of packages delivered by drones,” writes Ward Lamart’s executive in a separate blog post. “It still sounds a bit like science fiction, but we are at a stage where we will learn more and more about the technology available and how we can use it to make life easier for its customers.”