Walmart Applies To Test Drone Use For Delivery and Inventory Checking (faa.gov)

Posted by Soulskill on Monday October 26, 2015 @12:00PM from the giant-pickles-delivered-directly-to-your-trash-can dept.

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.

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Lasers by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-26 13:29 · Score: 2, Interesting

"... inventory-checking procedures at Walmart parking lots ..." (drone follows you in parking lot and says [in robot voice]) Did you just buy that, please show your receipt, return to store now, last warning, 3, 2, 1 [pew! pew!]