Commercial drones (as opposed to their weaponized military-grade cousins) went from being something of a punchline a few years ago to a fully anticipated part of day-to-day life as 2016 gets underway. And as two of the more primary moving forces behind the drone-enhanced, coming soon to a reality populated by us — Amazon and Google have some ideas about how it should all be run such that the skies above our heads remain orderly even as they become increasingly crowded.
Their visions – as explained at CES last week – are slightly different.