24-03-2015 19:02 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Amazon blasts U.S. FAA for slowness on drone regulation

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - E-commerce power Amazon.com blasted federal regulators on Tuesday for being slow to approve commercial drone testing, saying the United States is falling behind other countries in the potentially lucrative area of unmanned aviation technology. Less than a week after the Federal Aviation Administration gave Amazon.com the green light to test a delivery drone outdoors, the company told U.S. lawmakers that the prototype drone had already become obsolete while
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