Bloomberg Reports: Domesticating Drones

 

Their success has fueled a more peaceful debate at home, over plans to let unmanned aircraft take flight for peaceful commercial purposes, including spotting forest fires, monitoring criminal activity, protecting the U.S. from missiles, inspecting remote pipelines and perhaps one day delivering pizza. Such uses are a ways off, however, as regulators grind away at rules allowing the safe entry of drones into airways that accommodate 70,000 manned aircraft.