How Should Drones Be Regulated? Balancing Privacy, Airspace Rules

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Heritage Foundation:

The Federal Aviation Administration missed its Sept. 30 deadline to file national regulations for drone use.

 

Interest groups sent a letter to Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Huerta to mark the occasion, and to announce that people are “already confused about where they should and should not fly.”

 

This missed deadline will halt commercial use. For non-commercial use, it might not be so bad.

 

The letter asserts that in the first decade of a well-regulated drone industry, innovators would create “100,000 jobs and $82 billion in economic impact.” This includes capacities like helping first responders execute rescue missions, insurance companies survey disaster sites, and farmers “improve crop yields.”