However, Jeff Bezos promises to offer a sight where people would see drones zipping around the sky later in this decade. They are yet to come up with redundancies which will protect the drones from rough weather and other causalities (just imagine kids trying to throw stones or dogs chasing low flying drones!). As the commercial use of UAV drones is restricted by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration, controlling board for civil aviation in the United States of America), amazon has not yet received its clearance to operate drones commercially concerning certain safety regulations. With its new found concept, Amazon promises delivery of consumer goods within a period of 60 minutes. Bezos played a demonstration video showing how the drones pick up the packages which are placed in a yellow Amazon bucket and deliver them to the consumer within a period of 30 minutes. At first glance, he had no idea what purpose that it would fulfill. To be more precise, it was a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) with eight propellers (commonly known as an “Octocopter”). It took correspondent Charlie Rose and the 60 minutes crew completely by shock as he walked into a secret R&D unit to find what looked like a flying tarantula. 1: Image Representing a Typical Amazon Air DroneĮarly December of 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, revealed to the world a new dimension to fulfill their customer’s online shopping experience on popular news show “60 minutes” of CBN news. “The common question that gets asked in business is “why?”, that’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, “why not?”.” ~Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon)įig.

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