United States of America, announced the company that manages it, the Flirtey.
“A drone recorded a first delivering successfully a package to the city of Nevada,” said Flirtey in a post on the official account on the social networking site Twitter yesterday.
In accordance with the digital edition of the magazine Popular Science, the aircraft delivered bottled water, a first aid kit and packaged food for emergency situations in an uninhabited house in Hawthorne, a small town in western Nevada. The magazine explained that this tradition was made for demonstration purposes.
The ceo of Flirtey, Matthew Sweeney said in Popular Science that the company intends in the future to make deliveries with UAVs in “populated urban areas, in environments such as those where people live their daily lives”.
The Flirtey is the first company that offers services of postal shipments with autonomous UAVs, according to its website. It has already carried out a successful test delivery in a rural area.
The Federal Aviation administration (FAA) said in a report published Thursday that the number of commercial use of unmanned aerial systems will quadruple in the next four years, reaching 2.7 million.
Based on preliminary data, have been recorded 582 sightings of UAVs by pilots reported to the FAA by the 22nd August 2015 and 31 January 2016.
By comparison, the service had just received 765 reports like that from the 11th November 2014 to 20th August 2015, or an average of 81 per month.
The proliferation of UAVs, however, give rise to serious risks for both private and commercial aircraft. A study that was made public last year by the Center for the Study of the Drone recorded at least 241 events almost conflicts of UAVs with manned aircraft—of which 90 were performing commercial flights between December 2013 and September 2015.
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USA: Drone for the first time in the role of “delivery man” in an urban area!
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