Working to beat congestion and cut costs for delivery to the home, Amazon has been developing their own eVTOLs, only they’ve got a much smaller payload in mind. Aiming to cut out much of the work done by delivery drivers, Amazon have developed drones that can pick up and drop off packages up to 5 kilograms. The use of delivery drones hasn’t been approved for wide-scale rollout yet, but during the trial runs Amazon were achieving 30 minute delivery times from order.
The Amazon trial was completed successfully in 2016 leaving the question what has happened to this technology?
The answer is simple, regulation. The company hasn’t been able to get approval for their drones to autonomously fly through the sky delivering packages at will. Similar issues will present themselves with other flying technology, as what goes up can only come down, and hard!