The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is looking at what the rules will be to allow drone flights over people. As noted in a recent blog post,
State Farm recently garnered a waiver for this very thing already.
Read
Groundbreaking U.S. Plan Would Permit Drone Flights Over Crowds.
I figure it could take two years before the rule-making is done. With the FAA granting individual waivers to specific companies and uses, they will learn a great deal from those pilot endeavors.
Steve Myers shared the Bloomberg story/link above.
Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.