“Cupid’s wings have been clipped,” said the CEO of FlowerDeliveryExpress.com, announcing that the Federal Aviation Administration had grounded its floral delivery drones. The Detroit flower company was carrying out a Valentine’s Day experiment to see how many deliveries its unmanned helicopter could handle by dropping free rose bouquets to a beta test group. The FAA, however, did not find the experiment cute and told FlowerDeliveryExpress.com that the use of commercial drones—which the agency described as “flying food processors”—must be pre-authorized.
Read it at CBS Detroit
