Last week, online retail giant Amazon revealed its potential ‘Prime Air’ service. This fresh take on the delivery system is designed to get packages to customers within 30 minutes of their order using unmanned aerial vehicles.
While
the retailer concedes that the project looks like a science fiction film, it
will make a full change for the future and looks to set a new online standard
for product ordering.
Amazon
expect to be ready to enter commercial operations as soon as the necessary
regulations are in place (as various rules and policies are being reviewed by
the UK government currently)
The
US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is also currently determining the
rules that will need to be in place in order for aerial drones to share United
States skies with traditional aircraft. Amazon hopes the FAA rules will be set
as early as some point in 2015 and promises that it will be ready at this time.
The
retailer says that its vehicles “will be built with multiple redundancies and
designed to commercial aviation standards” and that, at some point, seeing
Prime Air vehicles in the sky “will be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the
road today.”
You
can check the Prime Air system below – if the link breaks YouTube has plenty of
concept videos (although this is the official 'Amazon' YouTube concept page).
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