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Walmart Applies To Test Drone Use For Delivery and Inventory Checking (faa.gov)
An anonymous reader writes: Retailing giant Walmart has submitted an application to the Federal Aviation Administration requesting permission to run drone trials. The tests are to include not only home delivery — with the permission of residents within the 'flight path' — but also inventory-checking procedures at Walmart parking lots. It only costs $5 to make an application of this nature to the FAA, and until some hint of concrete legislation comes to light from the newly-formed UAS task force on November 20th, that's probably about as much as any company would want to spend on speculative drone-delivery research.
Do you also worry about delivery trucks running you over while you're cutting your grass?
Thankfully, delivery trucks have well defined regulated lanes of travel to keep them off private property.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.