Drones downed? FAA regulations.

AuthorMangu-Ward, Katherine
PositionCitings - Federal Aviation Administration - Brief article

COMPANIES FROM Amazon to Domino's want to use drones to improve their delivery services. This is no flight of fancy; major publicly traded firms have sunk serious money into figuring out how to best deploy unmanned aerial vehicles to get their books, boxes, and pizza to customers as quickly and cheaply as possible.

The primary barrier between Internet buyers and a sky humming with helpful robots: the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). At the moment, drones are only legally allowed to fly after obtaining a special permit from the regulatory body--and getting such a permit is nearly impossible for commercial operators. Because of that, many companies have been pushing for regulations, assuming that the resulting clarity would be better than the current case-by-case uncertainty.

The FAA has been promising to release general guidelines for...

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