Amazon not happy with FAA...

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Commercial drone operators will be banned from letting unmanned aircraft out of their sight, under new US proposals that come as a major blow to companies like Amazon that were hoping to use the unmanned aircraft to make aerial home deliveries.

Amazon said the proposed new Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) rules, which were outlined in a conference call with reporters on Sunday morning, would prevent it from operating such a service in the US and could force it to develop the technology overseas instead.

“The FAA needs to begin and expeditiously complete the formal process to address the needs of our business, and ultimately our customers,” Paul Misener, Amazon vice-president of gobal public policy, said in a statement to the Guardian. “We are committed to realising our vision for Prime Air and are prepared to deploy where we have the regulatory support we need.”


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Testing of Amazon’s Prime Air technology has been taking place at an indoor facility in Washington state, but the company recently expanded its research and development team in Cambridge in the UK and has threatened to switch investment to more sympathetic regulatory environments.

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