Amazon’s ‘Delivery Drone’ Blues

21st Century Wire says…
When we first heard that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos had the wacky idea of having drones deliver packages straight to your house – we wrote it off as totally potty, and the typical techno-ravings of a Silicon Valley futurist after a glass of Chardonnay and a spliff. But they are dead serious about this, and will not stop until it’s a reality.
This week we learned that the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) have approved ‘delivery drones’ – so long as Amazon changes everything. The FAA say they are willing to let Amazon test their drones under an special ‘experimental license’ inside the US, but not doing deliveries, only flight tests.

This post was published at 21st Century Wire on MARCH 22, 2015.