China ahead of US in drone use

[jwilson]

I just watched this segment about drones on Fareed Zakaria on CNN. He said the main reason China is way ahead of the US in commercial drone use, is the US has too many drone regulations. He mentioned that we just relaxed the LOS rule a little. China is delivering packages, fertilizing fields, and doing many other commercial applications. Pretty soon they will be using them for transportation. But the US is way behind because of the FAA.

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[jaja6009]

Thanks for sharing!

Hopefully we get to where we need to be soon, but safely.

We do some of what the tweet says. We do spray crops (With a somewhat pain to get Part 137 and some state certs) and we do have drones saves lives (COAs and waivers allow public safety to now fly BVLOS and over people pretty easily).

Our package delivery is just getting started and is active in some areas, but Part 108 should supercharge this when it finally comes out.

We are also behind on American companies offering lower cost drones that can do a lot of these things as well as companies such as DJI and Autel (To an extent), but there are some companies that have decent but higher costing products.

Our "flying cars" are also about to become more mainstream. Joby and other companies have prototypes out.

It's an exciting time in drones and I love reading, watching and being a part of it.