ALERT SUMMARY
According to CBS News, United Parcel Service drones outfitted in the company's signature brown may soon be buzzing across the sky. The delivery company said Tuesday that it's creating a subsidiary that will focus on expanding UPS' drone-delivery operations, limited now to delivering medical samples at a group of hospitals in Raleigh, North Carolina.
UPS filed for certification from the Federal Aviation Administration for the subsidiary, called UPS Flight Forward, to fly drones beyond line of sight, at night, and with an unlimited number of drones and operators in command.
UPS' push comes as technology giants Google and Amazon rev up their own drone delivery programs. Amazon in June demonstrated an electric delivery drone is designed to ferry light packages to customer's home in less than 30 minutes, with executives saying the service to be in the air later this year.
1. UPS wants FAA approval to launch a subsidiary to expand the delivery company's use of drones.
2. Amazon is targeting late 2019 for autonomous delivery to customer's homes.
3. The technology push comes as Amazon and Google are also looking to rev up drone deliveries.
Additional Alert Information
In April, Google announced that its affiliate Wing Aviation received federal approval allowing it to make commercial deliveries by drone. It marked the first time a company has gotten a federal air carrier certification for drone deliveries. The approval from the FAA means that Wing can operate commercial drone flights in part of Virginia, which it plans to begin later this year.
In the end, how will we ever really know if any drone in our neighborhood is safe or not?
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