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

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 13, 2014 @01:36AM from the looking-forward-to-hockey-drones dept.

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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Re:Do We Want Our Gov't to regulate the drones? by CohibaVancouver · 2014-09-13 03:08 · Score: 3, Informative

So basically what you're saying is humans are flawed, so we need some flawed humans to make rules for the rest of the flawed humans?
Yes, because some humans are way more flawed than others.

Here in Vancouver, flawed humans are flying drones around jets landing at our airport. Less flawed humans are making rules around that, which is OK by me.