When you are trained, with proper license and have a co-pilot for redundancy, permits can be granted. In such scenario, we are talking about using drone for work applications, not fooling around. I am a client of a energy company that have some of their employees trained to fly drones. But if I am not mistaken, they need 2 operators, 2 RC, etc. Plans and permits needs to be lodged prior to getting airborne. They would most likely fly in a predicable path, not exceeding certain speed and height.
Some of these drones would be larger than the Mavic, and probably sending telemetry data like small manned aircrafts, so other pilots can be aware of these drones in the same airspace.