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Amazon set to enter brave new world of package delivery

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Online retailer Amazon announced Sunday that it is planning a new delivery service in which products would be delivered with the use of unmanned drones.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the so-called "Octocopters" in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS "60 Minutes," and claimed that the drones would not be ready to take flight for another four or five years. However, after the interview aired, Amazon released a statement promising that "Prime Air vehicles will be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road today."

"I know this looks like science fiction. It's not," Bezos said in the CBS interview with Charlie Rose. "It drops the package. You come and get your package and we can do half-hour deliveries."

Federal Aviation Administration regulations currently prohibit the kind of flights Bezos proposes that Prime Air octocopters undertake. However, rule changes could come as early as 2015.
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Obviously, Amazon will not have a monopoly on drone delivery, once it becomes FAA approved. I have to wonder, how filled will the skies become once this technology becomes widespread? Will we have to wear hardhats or crash helmets outside to avoid the debris from falling drones slamming into one another a thousand feet up?
 
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