Inside the US race for drone delivery dominance
The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed new rules to speed the deployment of drones which would allow certified drone operators to fly beyond the visual line of sight, eliminating the need for a long, and sometimes costly, waiver process.
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AI GeneratedThe FAA is proposing a streamlined process to allow drone operators to fly beyond the visual line of sight. This shift aims to enable commercial scalability, allowing a single operator to monitor multiple drones simultaneously, significantly reducing delivery costs and enhancing the efficiency of retail logistics compared to traditional driver-based fleets.
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The FAA has proposed creating a streamlined process for drone operators to be able to fly drones
beyond the line of sight. So right now, unless you get a waiver, the drone has to be within
eyesight. That might not be too much of a problem for people like you and I who want to fly drones
for fun, but if you're a business, if you want to fly more than, you know, the short distance away,
you've got to be able to fly longer distances. And you also, if you're a commercial operator
who's flying a lot of deliveries, you want several drones to be able to be in the air at the same
time. So one operator, one human on the ground can sort of be monitoring multiple drones,
making their deliveries for longer distances. One of the businesses that we talked to said that
they can have one controller making about $25 an hour watching 40 drones at once on a screen,
which is close to 200 deliveries in an hour, which they said is a fraction of what it costs
to deploy a fleet of drivers for those same deliveries. The U.S. government from the very top
may see China as a big competitor in this regard. They see drone deliveries becoming more common in
and they want that to happen in the United States because this is a gee whiz kind of technology.
This is a technology that, and when it's wild as promises, could overcome traffic congestion,
could reliably deliver things under half an hour, could really open up a new level for
retail delivery. So right now they're mostly pilots, but there are big retailers like Amazon
and Walmart that are trying to rapidly scale their drone delivery networks right now.
Amazon wants to be able to reach 30 million customers by the end of this year.