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The precursor behind successful execution of
this will be the support from regulatory Two
years back the Amazon s Founder and CEO Jeff
Bezos promised that Amazon will kick start the
delivery of packages by drone When he said
this people thought of it as Science fiction but
he further stated that it s not American media
postulated this as a publicity stunt in order to
increase Christmas shoppers having the Federal
law which is quite strict with flying commercial
drones over the populated areas
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drones will be expanding their use like flights
beyond the sight of an operator Unmanned
aircrafts are expediting to the skies in order to
perform a variety of tasks which include helping
out farmers in order to fertilize their crops and
aerial inspection of refineries In many cases it is
expected that drones will take over the dangerous
activities and this will result in helping humans in
order to reduce their risks with dangers By next
year it is expected that drones will be useful in
news media and other industries Currently Drone
is in a situation similar to that of self driving cars
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Google s executive wing claims that they will
deliver packages in 2017 via Drone This new
concept was an initiative by Google s
experimental labs The US National Science
foundation will spend 35 Million over the next
five years on unmanned flight research The
current regulation is not going to allow the type
of automated long distance flying for what the
Amazon delivery system have proposed for their
package delivery system Project wings will
conduct experiments in safe environment at one
of the six FAA sectioned drone testing sites to lay
the groundwork for future approvals as stated
by the White House The drones would equip
with tiny inexpensive radio transponders which
will help in identifying location to other aircraft
and to the controller on the ground As the
drones get equipped with these transponders it
would permit the craft to fly in the congested
areas without hitting each other Once these
drones prove their efficacy of being safe these
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The key obstacle lies in legal and regulatory
environment Bringing this game changing
delivery into execution might be done quickly or
it might take a lot of time Currently time taken to
deliver goods is less than one hour according to
Drone economy This mode of delivery is currently
unable to match the current efficacy of delivery
truck s milk run and this is the key challenge for
this technology to come into existence This is the
key motivator for the companies like Google and
Amazon as they have realized and invested in
R D And this is the reason why Matternet is
testing drone deliveries with swiss port
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