Who will be first to capture an Amazon package-delivery drone and other intriguing, drone-related questions

Check out the drone zoning illustrations on Jacob Kastrenakesget's post.

I live in the flight path of a small airport and am bothered from time to time by the noise of planes landing. The folks on the take-off side have a worse noise problem. A few years ago, a small plane crashed on a house while landing at the airport. There seem to be no restrictions on small aircraft flying over my neighborhood.

This post by Jacob Kastrenakesget raises all sorts of difficult and intriguing drone-regulation questions that will arise when they are ubiquitous:

• Do we need 3-D "zoning" laws?
• Do we need privacy laws?
• How could privacy intrusions be detected and the laws enforced?
• Will we have automated detection and identification of drones?
• Will we have automated anti aircraft weapons?
• Who will be responsible for damage caused by crashes?
• Will there be design safety regulations for drones?
• What about drone-jackers?
• Who will be first to capture an Amazon package-delivery drone?

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Update 9/27/2014

DHL is also experimenting with drones for packet delivery.



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Update 1/21/2016

Amazon has released this new video on their delivery drones and David Pogue has conducted an interview of Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president for global public policy on their drone delivery plan.


















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