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Amazon researchers first tried to adapt air-traffic methods used by airlines only to discover that these techniques didn’t work with low-flying drones. Instead, they began to develop a system that focuses on guiding drones past obstacles like power lines, buildings, and birds. This approach relies on creating detailed maps that include temporary objects like construction cranes as well as up-to-the-second weather conditions. What’s more, the autonomous drones will also be able to warn each other in real-time if they encounter any risks on a flight. Despite these latest advancements, though, there’s still no telling when Amazon Prime Air will be ready to go live. “This is highly regulated,” said Amazon’s VP for global innovation policy Paul Misener. “We’re not going to launch this until we can demonstrate its safety.”

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as the Amazon VP for global innovation policy Paul Misener said , it is true that the Implementation of amazon air drone has few limitations regarding the safety.

There are concerns over privacy and safety and those are completely legitimate. The drone will use GPS to find your house and will almost definitely have a camera in order to safely land and navigate its surroundings, so while it's very unlikely that Amazon will use that information to collect data on you for the government, or whatever the worry may be, the company will have to have to some privacy protections in place. So using of the camera would create safety concerns as the data regarding the people privacy would be stored in the amazon owned drones.

Not only the safety of people, Now there are few concerns regarding the safety of the drones too as they are the assets of the organization, the biggest hurdle for Amazon would be the logistics of using the drones to deliver to so many different types of addresses including homes, apartment buildings and commercial properties that each have their own problems to solve for a successful delivery, all while using a fairly vulnerable technology. but without a human presence, theft and other property damage could be problem. And this logistics nightmare is probably the thing that will be the downfall of the program. it will be extremely challenging.

One downside that may interest TreeHuggers is that predatory birds seem to like attacking these small types of drones. As the Atlantic reports, to us, it looks like a delivery drone, but to raptors, it looks like some other large bird moving into their airspace. So they would attack these drones or cause the hurdles for smooth delivery.