Google green lit to start testing drone delivery (but only in approved areas)
As of today, Google has the all clear from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to start testing its drones at any of six FAA-approved test sites in the US. Until now, FAA guidelines prohibited drones in the US to operate without a human pilot, or beyond the pilot’s line of sight. Because of these regulations, most of the testing leading up to full-scale drone delivery services from the likes of Amazon, Google and others happened overseas. Today though, the FAA loosened the guidelines for Google as part of a White House initiative aimed at speeding the deployment of these drone delivery…
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