Amazon proposes to allocate separate airspace for high-speed drones
Amazon's specialists suggest airspace from sixty to one hundred twenty meters to unmanned aerial vehicles. Drones will be able to move in this space at a speed of 111 kilometers per hour in order to deliver goods to customers as quickly as possible.
Amazon proposes making it “fly-free” thirty meters above the mentioned zone to avoid accidents.
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Amazon proposes to allocate airspace over cities and suburban areas for high-speed unmanned drones moving without human intervention as a pilot operator. In this case, even with the participation of pilots, the latter will not have a visual connection with the drones.
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This initiative will help Amazon get closer to delivering packages within thirty minutes. The company is confident that in the next ten years thousands of small drones will automatically deliver goods to the United States. Not all of these drones will be owned by Amazon.
Specialists suggested using the allocated space for drones at a height of sixty to one hundred meters, and thirty meters above - to make it forbidden to fly to avoid accidents. Drones will fly at a speed of sixty knots - one hundred and eleven kilometers per hour.
Currently, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has issued more than seven hundred permits to use drones by commercial companies, but only one of them has the right to deliver goods. This is a startup Flirtey, which, in collaboration with NASA, delivers drugs to a remote Virginia district using multicopter.
NASA and Verizon are developing a drone tracking system that will be tested by Google and Amazon.
Amazon proposes making it “fly-free” thirty meters above the mentioned zone to avoid accidents.
Photo source: Twitter user
Amazon proposes to allocate airspace over cities and suburban areas for high-speed unmanned drones moving without human intervention as a pilot operator. In this case, even with the participation of pilots, the latter will not have a visual connection with the drones.
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This initiative will help Amazon get closer to delivering packages within thirty minutes. The company is confident that in the next ten years thousands of small drones will automatically deliver goods to the United States. Not all of these drones will be owned by Amazon.
Specialists suggested using the allocated space for drones at a height of sixty to one hundred meters, and thirty meters above - to make it forbidden to fly to avoid accidents. Drones will fly at a speed of sixty knots - one hundred and eleven kilometers per hour.
Currently, the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has issued more than seven hundred permits to use drones by commercial companies, but only one of them has the right to deliver goods. This is a startup Flirtey, which, in collaboration with NASA, delivers drugs to a remote Virginia district using multicopter.
NASA and Verizon are developing a drone tracking system that will be tested by Google and Amazon.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/382359/
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