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The latest idea from Amazon: “Drones drones to deliver packages”

Jeff Bezos introduces the program Prime Air: remote-controlled aircraft to carry the customer’s home and bundled up to 2.3 kilograms. The technology is ready, but you have to wait for the green light by the authorities on aviation

Into the space of a couple of years, maybe the books literally rain down from the sky. In an interview with American TV CBS, Jeff Bezos unveiled the latest extravagant and futuristic novelty license plate Amazon: a parcel delivery service through remote-controlled drones. It will be called Amazon Prime Air and allow you to send packages weighing up to 2.3 kg (86% of those sent by the company, said Bezos), in less than thirty minutes, to customers who are within 16 km from the warehouse sorting.

bring books, DVDs, records and any other product of small size directly to the customer’s home – further accelerating the process of automation of the e-commerce giant – will be a drone of the family “octocopter”, provided that eight small helices that stabilize it and allow the flight. A model in part similar to that used last summer by a journalist to resume demonstrations Gezi Park in Istanbul, then shot down by the police (in that case, the propellers were only four). Amazon distributed a short promotional video in which shows an example of such would be the shipment.

The conditional is still a must, at least for a couple of years. First, he explained Bezos, the company’s Seattle will get the go-ahead from the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency that oversees civil aviation in the United States and at the time still prohibits the use of drones for commercial and civil ( while authorizing him, in special cases, police and some government agencies). In the coming months the debate on the management of the drones will be a hot topic in the skies around the world: there are already a reality, such as the Australian Zookal.com, who are taking advantage of the legal vacuum to try to launch business initiatives.

Some slowdown could also arrive on the face of privacy. In the ongoing public debate in the United States, other associations for the protection of consumers are concerned about the presence of cameras on drones and the management of the images may be captured in flight (similar to those disputes that – always in high-tech area – relate to the registration ‘accidental’ private information from the cars used by Google as part of Street View project). From the technological point of view, however, Amazon ensures that its octocopter would pretty much ready to go tomorrow, “sounds like science fiction, but it’s reality. One day the view of the aircraft of Prime Air in heaven will be normal as it is today one of the vans transport companies on the roads. ”