Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently announced his company plans to
use commercial drones. Amazon called the new serves as Amazon Prime Air. According
to the company, the goal of this new delivery system is to get packages into
customers' hands in 30 minutes or less using unmanned aerial vehicles. The
drones are expected to carry items up to five pounds, which is approximately 86%
of all deliveries Amazon makes, and they also expected to provide services to customers
who live within 10 miles from the point of origin.
Amazon is expected to use the drones after 2015 if it gets
permission from The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). But getting permission
is not going to be easy because there are a lot of safeties questions need to
be answered. For example, will Amazon able to design the drones to commercial
aviation standards? The possibility of a collision between a drone and a
commercial aircraft. Some congressional lawmakers are even rejecting military use of drones. At this time there is a little optimistic to expect them to pass law for commercial drones. But, we might see the use of drones in other countries.
Amazon is not the only company that came up with this idea. Domino's
U.K. and Zookal from Australia also released a video of drones delivering pizzas
and textbooks. Zookal is already got permission to use drone to deliver textbook
rental in Australia next year. It will take some years, but we will definitely
see use of commercial drones around the world.
Source CNN
By: AW - Extra Blog
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