While the U.S. struggles to adopt rules and regulations for domestic drone usage — putting Amazon’s planned 30-minute drone delivery service on the backburner for years, possibly decades — the United Arab Emirates plans to introduce their own fleet of drone couriers.
See: Engineering Update 46: The United Arab Emirates’ drone delivery service
According to Dr Noah Raford, special adviser to the Office of the Prime Minister, the drones will have a range of 3 km at 40 kph and carry up to 1.5 kg.
The UAE quadcopters will ferry drivers licenses and other government documents and will eventually include fingerprint and eye-recognition security systems.
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