The time has come for delivery drones to take to the sky. Coronavirus has made it clear that in order to protect our essential workers, they should be piloting deliveries instead of handling them.
"It is not about the hardware. It is about the airspace." Until we get that problem sorted, drones are dry-docked.by companies like Tel Aviv-based Flytrex, Iceland's AHA, Alphabet and Uber the groundwork is set for the FAA to advise and change air space restrictions in populated areas to allow for short-range drone deliveries, like from local restaurants and grocers.
Well, the process doesn't have to be totally autonomous. Programming a drone to fly autonomously is much different than a human flying it. A UPS driver could pull into a neighborhood and release the drones. A restaurant could load the food into a carrying box attached to the drone and then send it out, either piloted by someone who would normally be doing deliveries or autonomously.
This isn't so far-fetched. It's already in practice. In Virginia, a coffee-roasting company called Brugh Coffee is
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