Despite growing concerns over safety, privacy, and legality of drones, it seems that Google will still be pushing through with a drone-powered service of its own in two years’ time. After all, since when did similar concerns stop Google from pushing through with its completely autonomous self-driving cars? Apparently, Google plans to commercially launch its drone delivery service, currently codenamed “Project Wing” by 2017. That is according to David Vos, and he should know, since he’s the current project leader for the rather surprising venture from Google.
Word broke out last year that Google was testing drones to deliver packages. It was more or less confirmed quickly and was revealed to be dubbed Project Wing. The concept of drones delivering things isn’t exactly new anymore. Amazon was one of the first to play with the idea, which did spark some legal debate about this new enterprise. Chinese retail giant as similarly made efforts, going as far as carrying out actual internal trials across its three separate offices in China.
via Slash Gear
