Flying drones are doing great things today, from powerline inspection to security surveillance to precision agriculture (fertilizer and pesticide application).
These drones have evolved from remotely piloted to fully autonomous, where the user programs waypoints and hits the “go” button.
So far, operating drones over populated areas has been limited. But that’s about to get tested.
On the immediate horizon is drone package delivery. We have Florida Tech alumni at Amazon today running the flight test certification program for their drone package delivery system.
If fielded, this will determine the public’s appetite (in terms of privacy, noise, visual disruption of the sky, security and safety) for drones flying over populated areas.
Just like delivery trucks sometimes break down or crash, it’s only a matter of time until a package-delivery drone crashes into a house or flies into a crowd of people.
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