“Moving America Forward with Transportation Infrastructure” By Krista Chavez, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Imagine receiving emergency medical supplies that were delivered to your house by drone; enjoying a sandwich while your autonomous vehicle drives you from Dallas, Texas, to Salt Lake City, Utah; or taking an air taxi from downtown Los Angeles […]
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Washington Beyond The Headlines: New Trade Deals Will Bolster Strong U.S. Economy
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor January 16, 2020 A BIG week in Washington! Impeachment staggers forward as the House finally sends articles of impeachment to the Senate. Of course, this is the government at work, so it’s all about process and now this will drag on for an indeterminate amount of time. […]
Drones are saving lives, but regulation might stop them
“Clipped Wings: How Excessive Red Tape Holds Back the Drone Industry” By Adam Thierer, Michael Kotrous, and Connor Haaland, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Throughout much of human history, technological innovation has raised living standards and saved lives. But when regulators prioritize red tape over experimentation, these opportunities can quickly be lost. Unmanned […]
TES Weekly Update: Russian Bear Gets Cozy In The Tropics
Meet your fuzzy new best friend everyone Vladimir Putin may have promised that the “Russian bear” will stick to the cold climes of Siberia, but perhaps he wasn’t being entirely truthful (shocking, shocking). It seems the famous ursine avatar is sniffing around the Middle East and Africa — and Russia’s moves in these regions […]
Make way for the delivery drones (by empowering local government)
“To Kickstart Drone Deliveries, Give Cities and States Regulatory Flexibility” By Brent Skorup and Connor Haaland, courtesy of the Mercatus Center Drone delivery services are coming to US towns. The technology is ready and operators have been making thousands of deliveries in rural China and medical deliveries in Rwanda. (We are seeing the […]
Drones have already saved tens of thousands of lives
“Beyond Visual Line of Sight: The Future of Drones in Healthcare” By Davis Warnell, courtesy of Mercatus Center On October 1st, UPS Flight Forward, Inc.—a subsidiary of United Parcel Service (UPS)—announced that it had received the first full “Part 135 Standard” certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) […]
Local law enforcement must be able to take out drones near airports
As demonstrated by a number of high-profile incidents involving major disruptions to air travel, privately operated unmanned aerial vehicles can pose a major threat to airport operations, and left unaddressed the problem will likely only get worse as the total number of drones in […]
U.S. needs military threat to negotiate credibly with Iran
Iran’s escalation of the not-so-secret proxy war in the Persian Gulf with two drone attacks crippling Saudi Arabian oil production, raises the obvious question of how the U.S. and it allies should respond. But America’s options are constrained in large part because of the […]
Africa’s digital healthcare revolution, in six steps
It was tempting to write “six easy steps” but that would be grossly inaccurate. Nonetheless the rapid rise of digital technology hold out the promise of improvements in healthcare provision that were unimaginable even a decade ago, writes Novartis head of global health […]
What should you do if you see a drone out the airplane window?
Don’t panic, but do tell someone quietly and calmly. That’s the condensed version of the thoughtful analysis and advice provided by Wayne Lonstein, CEO of VFT Solutions, in a commentary for Forbes addressing this all-too-modern of dilemmas. As for national regulators including transportation officials […]