无人机无法起飞的原因 无人机行业能否安全起飞

无人机行业能否安全起飞  

This month an autonomous drone made a 13-minute flight over the British countryside to drop off an Amazon television-streaming stick and a bag of popcorn to a customer near Cambridge.
At one level
the delivery was little more than a quirky publicity stunt to demonstrate the potential of technology. But it also confirmed Amazon’s deadly serious intent to develop a delivery infrastructure that could yet revolutionise the logistics industry.
“I know this looks like science fiction. It’s not
” Jeff Bezos
Amazon’s founder
told a television interviewer in 2013
revealing the pany’s drones programme. “It will work
and it will happen
and it’s gonna be a lot of fun.”
“我知道这看上去像是科幻小说。并非如此。”亚马逊创始人杰夫•贝索斯(Jeff Bezos)在2013年的一次电视采访中透露了该公司的无人机计划，他告诉采访者，“它是可行的，它会实现的，它会带来很多乐趣。”
The holy grail of the logistics industry has always been to solve the “last mile” challenge
the trickiest and most expensive link in the delivery chain. Amazon Prime Air could be part of the solution. Drone operators claim their deliveries can be quicker
safer and greener than most other options.
If the necessary infrastructure were in place
drones could be used for the bulk of Amazon’s deliveries. According to Mr Bezos
Amazon’s drones can deliver packages weighing up to 5lb (a little over 2kg)
covering 86 per cent of the items it delivers.
The critical question is whether that infrastructure will ever be built. Will we allow the mass use of mercial drones over populated areas? Can we envisage a day when thousands of mercial drones buzz through our cities delivering parcels to specially designated drop-off points on rooftops and in car parks?
In many countries
we are at the beginning of a fumbling triangular dance beeen operators
regulators and the public about the safety and acceptability of such deliveries.
Operators argue that mercial drones have been successfully used for years in sparsely populated areas of the world. In the early 1980s the Japanese pioneered the use of drones to spray pesticides on rice fields. Energy panies regularly use drones to survey remote oil pipelines
damaged power lines and wind turbines.
Their use is particularly effective in parts of the developing world where drones can leapfrog poor conventional infrastructure. Rural parts of Rwanda are already benefiting from drone-delivered
time-sensitive medicines.
A recent report by PwC highlighted the speed at which the industry is developing
identifying 200 drone manufacturers globally. “The drone sector is on the verge of being a mass industry
with enormous potential to disrupt various types of business
” it concluded.
But allowing autonomous mercial drones to deliver customers’ parcels in cities would cross a perception threshold. It would certainly be the most visible — and possibly controversial — use of the technology so far.
Regulators in some countries
such as the UK
Japan and Poland
are adopting an acmodating approach
encouraging drone operators to experiment provided they meet defined safety standards. However
other countries — most notably the US — are far more cautious about whether to allow operators to fly autonomous drones beyond the line of sight.
Ed Leon Klinger
chief executive of Flock
an early stage start-up pany serving the drone industry
says the UK is at the forefront of global thinking on mercial drone use. “The drone industry is developing at an incredible pace. We will see drones in cities within three years
” he predicts.
His pany
which provides real-time data analytics on weather and traffic conditions to operators
enables drones to fly more safely and smartly in cities and helps insurance panies price risk.
Even though regulators and operators are learning to bump along together
the public appears to be trailing a long way behind. One of the mercial drone industry’s biggest fears is that irresponsible hobbyists will destroy public trust in the technology before responsible operators can prove themselves. Public concern is rising about how hobbyist drones have been used to snoop on neighbours
deliver drugs to prisoners and endanger aircraft. Securityservices are already installing “geofences” around sensitive sites