{"id":4396,"date":"2014-03-16T23:48:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T06:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2014-03-16T23:48:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T06:48:03","slug":"commercial-drones-take-off-around-the-globe-but-are-grounded-in-the-us-for-now-by-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/16\/commercial-drones-take-off-around-the-globe-but-are-grounded-in-the-us-for-now-by-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial drones take off around the globe, but are grounded in the US for now by government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4398\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-Group_photo_of_aerial_demonstrators_at_the_2005_Naval_Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicle_Air_Demo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4398\" alt=\"Group photo of aerial demonstrators at the 2005 Naval Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Air Demo, also known as drones. (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-Group_photo_of_aerial_demonstrators_at_the_2005_Naval_Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicle_Air_Demo-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-Group_photo_of_aerial_demonstrators_at_the_2005_Naval_Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicle_Air_Demo-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/640px-Group_photo_of_aerial_demonstrators_at_the_2005_Naval_Unmanned_Aerial_Vehicle_Air_Demo.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Group photo of aerial demonstrators at the 2005 Naval Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Air Demo, also known as drones. (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The U.S. government bars commercial use of drones, no matter how seemingly benign.<\/p>\n<p>But already, photographers, real estate agents, moviemakers and others are hurrying to embrace the technology.<\/p>\n<p>The use of commercial drones is starting to spread to countries where authorities have decided the aircraft presents little threat if operators follow a few safety rules.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials say rules to address the special safety challenges associated with unmanned aircraft need to be in place before they can share the sky with manned aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>But final rules could be years away for small drones, which are defined as those weighing less than 55 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The drone industry and some lawmakers worry that the United States will be one of the last countries to gain the economic benefits of the technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WASHINGTON &#8211; The U.S. government bars commercial use of drones, no matter how seemingly benign. But already, photographers, real &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1106,352],"class_list":["post-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-drones","tag-us","mauthors-joan-lowy","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}