We know that Amazon is toying with the idea of employing drones for package deliveries in under half an hour. The company introduced this concept as Amazon Prime Air however for it to take off the FAA has to ease its regulations. The FAA’s recent proposed regulations have effectively grounded Amazon Prime Air but that doesn’t mean the company won’t look to launch it elsewhere.
Amazon VP Paul Misener says that the company is committed to realizing its vision for Amazon Prime Air, and that it is prepared to deploy this technology “where we have the regulatory support we need.”
Regulatory support is absolutely crucial for Amazon Prime Air. The FAA’s proposed regulations won’t allow this service to function which means Amazon will look at other countries that have relatively relaxed regulations.
In a recent interview with Popular Science, Prime Air VP Gur Kimchi said that the service “is trying to get as close as possible to real teleportation,” and that too without upsetting the laws of physics.
Kimchi explains that the logic behind Prime Air is that customers should be able to receive the products they want without any effort. This service will bring the products automatically to customers wherever they might be, and compares it with teleportation.
The situation doesn’t seem too welcoming at least in the United States, but Kimchi is hopeful that Amazon will be able to make drone deliveries in markets where it has fulfillment centers as well as support from regulators at least in the next few years.
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