FAA gives drones from Amazon,

If you live in Arizona or Texas, you may want to invest in some flame -resistant umbrellas. Amazon Declare Tuesday obtained approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to deliver devices equipped with Li -Ion batteries via air drones. This means that devices such as iPhone and AirPods and more can now be delivered by air within about an hour for subscribers in qualified areas.

Amazon says that shoppers who choose the delivery processes with drones-at the present time are only active at the college station, Texas, Wadi West in Phoenix, Arizona Metro-You can now choose from 60,000 products weighing five pounds or less. The company has also updated its delivery protocols; Previously, customers will have to place the fast response icon on the ground of the drone to make the decrease. Now, as soon as the drone emphasizes the right address, it falls a 13 -foot package above the ground in a dedicated location without the need for drops of dropping point.

This height should not be a problem for most devices equipped with lithium ion. the Ministry of Transport instructions To charge Lithium ion cells, it calls for bundles that contain batteries to be able to withstand a drop-off test of 1.2 meters (about 4 feet) that ensures that no damage-but this criterion does not apply to the batteries inside the device. There is always a non -zero chance to have something side by side and a device that suffers from damage, but in general, anything should be drowned by Amazon drone as well as this 13 -feet decrease. Hell, IPhone has at least one to survive 16,000 feetSo this is nothing.

While Amazon expands the types of products that you can offer through drones, they are still struggling to make these drops already for more people. The company was imprisoned in markets only despite the risk of delivering drones to return to back In 2013 – And make it The first decrease in nearly a decade. Amazon recently got the approval of FAA last year to operate its drones outside the visual sight, which expanded its delivery. But it continues to face organizational obstacles, whether in federalism or Local levelsWhose expansion slows down.

Meanwhile, Amazon’s competitors began to get their foothold. Walmart cooperated with Wing Drone Logistics Companies (owned by Google) and Zipline to provide all delivery to shoppers in the Dallas Fort Worth region, and Claims For the largest delivery offer for drone for any American retail dealer. During, Doordash also took advantage of the wing To deal with delivery operations for that in the southern part of Charlotte, North Carolina.