Amazon Seeks US Exemption To Test Delivery Drones 155
angry tapir writes: Amazon.com has asked the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration for permission to test drones outdoors for use in its Prime Air package delivery service. In the run up to launching the service, which aims to deliver packages in 30 minutes or less, the online retailer is developing aerial vehicles that travel over 50 miles (80 kilometers) per hour, and will carry 5pound (2.3 kilogram) payloads, which account for 86 percent of the products sold on Amazon.
They need to ask permission because the FAA specifically banned such behavior last month.
Re:won't work (Score:3, Funny)
Yeeehaaaww skeet shooting with prizes!!!!!!
Re:Shrug. (Score:0, Funny)
Order your stuff same-day at 11:30pm to get it in 30 minutes.
Re:Why in America? (Score:3, Funny)
Like prostitution?
Re:Why in America? (Score:2, Funny)
It is against both international treaty and domestic laws for Canadians to be rude in public to foreigners unless we have been extremely provoked over an extended period of time (it is best to wait years - Canadian Courtesy Judges are quite mean to Canadians when applying the extended period of time section of the law) ....but their is a blanket exception in the case of any American government entity, corporation, collection of more than 25 Americans, individual Americans of note, and any concept or plan originating from America that may signifigantly negatively affect Canada or Canadians.