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don't you just hate when you're expecting to receive your monthly shipment of toilet paper via drone and

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some rope with a gun shoots it down so you're stuck using your emergency stash

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of cheap scratchy single ply okay maybe this hasn't happened to you

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but why hasn't it happened to you amazon has been promising us drone delivery since

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all the way back in 2013 when i was but

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a young graduate but here we are in 2022 when i'm old with children and the skies

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don't exactly look like coruscant on episode 1.

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unsurprisingly one big hurdle to mainstream drone delivery is how once

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again the law isn't keeping up with advancements in technology aviation is

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one of the most heavily regulated industries on the planet and to be fair

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it does make sense as if we're gonna travel 500 miles per hour in a glorified

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bus with wings like we do on a plane we at least want to feel fairly certain we

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won't be turned into charred meatballs on landing but drones aren't exactly the

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same as commercial airliners i mean they aren't carrying people

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yet but it wasn't until 2016 that the

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federal aviation administration in the united states passed rules specifically

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for drones commonly referred to as part 107 although part 107 made the rules of

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the sky more straightforward for hobbyists

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it didn't do much to help businesses who wanted to deliver orders via drone

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probably the most burdensome rule is that drone operators have to keep their

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drones within their line of sight not exactly feasible for big companies like

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amazon or uber who want to deliver lots of packages over fairly long distances

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now it does turn out that you don't have to fly under part 107 rules but

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unfortunately if you want to do long-range package delivery in the us

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you have to get ffa approval under another set of rules called

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part 135 and that's a lengthy onerous

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the rules the ffa enforces are designed for traditional planes that carry

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traditional people not small drones carrying burritos or whatever and new

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rules have to be adopted that make more sense for delivery drones but to be fair

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to our government overlords the ffa is working to streamline the drone approval

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process and is also collaborating with private industry to create a dedicated

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air traffic control system for unmanned drones but it could take years before

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this is all developed enough to allow large fleets of delivery drones to take

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to the skies of course the entire point of the rules is to ensure that aircraft

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operates safely and there are questions about that as well hobby drones are

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really light but package delivering drones like the 11 pounders used by

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google subsidiary wing are quite a bit heavier and while you super strong

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people might think that 11 pounds isn't super heavy it would certainly pose a

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safety risk if something that weighs about as much as a small dumbbell

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plummeted from the sky and hit you basically anywhere on your body other

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delivery services will likely be using even heavier drones to deliver larger

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packages and while drones may never be required to meet the one critical

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incident in one billion flight hours standard of commercial airliners they'll

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certainly need to meet more stringent requirements than they do now considering off-the-shelf drones can and

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do fail quite frequently and it isn't just about mechanical hardiness either

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there's currently not much infrastructure in place to control drone

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traffic or even ensure they won't run into each other or into other objects

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animal attacks on flying drones have even happened but logistics aside we

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can't discount the social part of the equation either while it would

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definitely be cool to have a drone bring you an emergency box of corn dogs at 3am

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in a matter of minutes do we really want a bunch of drones

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emitting that high-pitched buzzing noise outside of our apartment Windows just

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level with your eye line at all hours of the night or day

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and how about ways to discourage theft porch pirates are already a problem so

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what might happen once the entire delivery process is unattended

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wing has already offered assurances that their drones don't contain high-res

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cameras in order to protect privacy but could this embolden would be packaged

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thieves no one's watching these are questions the industry will need to find

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answers to if they're going to run delivery services that both make a

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profit and entice potential customers so

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we're definitely not saying drone delivery will never work just give it a

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few years patience is a virtue even in the age of amazon prime so thanks for

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