Google has a secret lab Google X, probably not that secret since the hole Internet knows about it and they are working on the project Wing. The plan here is to bring drones for delivery.
That's right drones will soon be everywhere, even delivering packages to your front door. First they where science fiction, then they were used by the military and now tested for commercial use. Well in today's world, that's the current order of things. Military always gets the cool stuff first. Google is of course not the only company testing and developing drones, Amazon was the one we heard most about recently regarding drones.
Google's drone, will call it that because it doesn't have an official name just yet, is 5 foot-wide and 2 feet high. It has four electric propellers which can move into different positions during flight. Right now they are testing these drones down under in Australia where they successfully transported supplies to two farms. Supplies were candy bars, radios, cattle vaccine, water and dog treats. So no heavy lifting just yet for the drones.
Officials from Google stated that the primary use for the drones will be to bring supplies in to disaster areas. Couple of drones could do a big difference in scenarios of crisis, they could offer continues shipment of food, water and medicine. But will just see if this is actually their plan or just a marketing trick by Google.
In the United States drones can only be used by the military, FAA doesn't allow any commercial use for the drones. So it looks like Amazon and Google are grounded for now. Amazon spokesmen said that they are trying to change FAA's view on the matter but it could take up to several years for them to change their policy.
Some people are excited about implementing drones for commercial use, some are terrified, you don't really have to be a conspiracy theorist to see how things could possibly go wrong with this type of technology. But honestly speaking isn't that the case with every ground breaking technology. Don't get me wrong, technology like this definitely needs rules and regulations, just not paranoia.
Source theverge.
No comments:
Post a Comment