Drone-Based Businesses: Growing In Canada, Grounded In the US

An anonymous reader writes: As small drones become affordable, and as clever people come up with ideas on how to use them, we've been hearing about more and more plans for drone-based business. In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration was quick to shut down such ideas in order to give themselves time to regulate the nascent industry. Not so, in Canada. Thanks to a simple permit system, anyone wanting to use a drone for commercial purposes can do so in Canada by simply applying and waiting a few weeks. Around 1,500 of these permits have been granted already, and Canada's private drone industry is flourishing as a result. Drones have been used for agriculture analysis, TV production, real estate photography, law enforcement, and many other tasks.

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Do We Want Our Gov't to regulate the drones?

[rmdingler]

Regulation is a word that bristles the hair about your neck,

but there are enough flaws in the human condition that we pretty much need some rules to protect us from each other.

This may be one of those times.