Bezos says it could take four or five years for drones to actually be commercially available.

Absrtact: Amazon at the end of 2013 for the first public display of Prime Air Service: A 8-wing UAV, within half an hour can be a five-pound delivery home. At that time, Bezos said, 86% of the Amazon parcel weight is below 4 pounds, so the weight is not a problem. However, at that time

Amazon first publicly showcased the Prime Air Service at the end of 2013: A 8-winged drone that could deliver a five-pound courier home in half an hour. At that time, Bezos said, 86% of the Amazon parcel weight is below 4 pounds, so the weight is not a problem. At the time, however, he had anticipated policy risks, and Bezos said it would take another four or five years for the real business to be commercially available, and that the biggest difficulty might be the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration).

The FAA is not a province lamp.

local time 15th, the FAA released its latest draft on drone operations. The draft stipulates that:

Small drones must be run within the operator's line of sight, and must be kept close enough to allow the operator to see the drone without any equipment (except for eye-correcting lenses). In addition, an operator or an observer shall not be responsible for more than one drone and all flights must be carried out during the day. The draft will apply to all drones weighing below 25 kg.

This is mainly to limit commercial drones for photography, reconnaissance lines, search and rescue, and monitoring of crops, excluding the possibility of drones being used to deliver services such as Amazon's Prime Air drone. Recently, the FAA has just approved 8 companies for drone commercial flights, and Amazon is clearly not in its list.

In addition, drones must be registered with the FAA to prevent them from flying above the crowd. The drone's speed is limited to 160 km per hour, up to 500 feet (about 152 meters) above sea level, and the visibility must be over 5 kilometres in flight.

It appears that drones have been used by a rock star as a way of proposing, but for a commercial purpose such as a logistics delivery, there is a need for further policy liberalisation, at least in the United States. Meanwhile, Amazon's Prime Air project is being tested in more open European countries such as the UK, as the US is too tightly regulated.

In the unmanned Aerial vehicle field, the domestic does not lag behind the international trend.

In addition to the proposed use of the drone brand DJI, the domestic polar Fly (Xaircraft) as early as 2011 has been in the commercial field of unmanned aircraft, for Forest cruise, police cruise, express logistics and other industries. And in policy considerations, flying has been talking with civil aviation for some time cooperation, the two sides are also promoting the control of unmanned aerial vehicles, the management of unmanned aerial vehicles and regulatory issues.

2013, the extremely fly already and has cooperated, uses the UAV to transport the goods between the logistics point, solves the last 50 meters logistics problem. And a few days ago Taobao and round general to deliver the unmanned aircraft is also extremely fly.

So unmanned aircraft delivery, domestic will take a step first?