The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved Amazon to expand its drone delivery program, with the company planning to “immediately” scale up operations.
Amazon announced that its new “detect-and-avoid system” was approved by the federal regulators on Thursday.
“To obtain this permission, we developed a BVLOS [beyond visual line of sight] strategy, including an onboard detect-and-avoid technology. We’ve spent years developing, testing, and refining our onboard detect-and-avoid system to ensure our drones can detect and avoid obstacles in the air,” Amazon said.
One of Amazon’s lead drone sites is in College Station, Texas, where they provide customers with their orders in less than an hour with “minimal complexity,” according to David Carbon, vice president of Prime Air.
In the company’s recent announcement, officials said, “We’ll immediately scale our operations in College Station with our current MK-27 drone to reach customers in more densely populated areas.”
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Amazon has set a goal to deliver 500 million packages per year by drone by the end of the decade.
“We knew we had to design a system capable of serving highly populated areas and that was safer than driving to the store,” the company said. “It’s taken years of inventing, testing, and improving to develop these breakthrough technologies, and now, on the heels of regulatory approval and cutting-edge technology, we’re excited to launch this next chapter for Prime Air.”
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