Drone Star State: We tried Texas’ flying pizza delivery

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00:00it's a bird it's a plane it's your food delivery some people in the Dallas Fort Worth area are

00:17looking to the skies and getting their meals delivered by drones drones like that are now

00:25dropping off pizza burritos and more several companies are now offering these drone deliveries

00:31and businesses say they see a lot of benefits things like convenience faster delivery and no need to tip

00:38a driver certain times a day it can take you know 20 30 minutes just to go a few miles and so if you're

00:47in need of a product or if you want your food hot and fresh a drone could be the best way to get it to

00:53you among the companies using drone deliveries through partnerships include Walmart Chipotle

00:59and go to foods which operates Carvel Cinnabon and more one of the companies operating these

01:05drones includes Flytrex which is allowed to fly six drones at a time they have a remote pilot who

01:12monitors deliveries and ensures drones are flying safely a lot of people are really excited it's

01:18not something you get to experience everywhere and you know you get those people that are kind

01:24of skeptical of drones but here in Granbury it's kind of growing and I think everyone knows Flytrex

01:28now customers are able to use an app to order drone deliveries for the first one you must enter your

01:35address which needs to be approved then the order goes out and the flight begins we have what we call

01:41a runner they go and pick up the order from the restaurant they bring it back here once it's here

01:46we'll weigh it and make sure it's within our weight limits we'll put it in our bag make sure it's nice

01:51and balanced then we take off the drone boat it on the drone and the drone flies to the destination

01:57while this new technology has some people excited it does not come without concerns there's noise issues

02:04there's also privacy issues that people have been you know concerned about and then and then also one

02:10thing that I wanted to mention that there's also safety safety is actually the major concern but

02:16that the industry has been very much aware of it they have been doing all kinds of things to avoid

02:20any potential collisions of drones then of course there's the regulatory issues that will come as

02:26well which is why Texas has been the testing ground Texas is more business friendly in certain

02:33ways and for certain technologies than perhaps other major metro areas might be and that was a major obstacle

02:42for drones particularly related to cost despite any concerns the people we spoke with believe drone

02:49delivery will become much more commercially available over the next several years pointing to places like

02:55China where the service has already reached commercial scale there's gonna be growing pens you know that the

03:01pain is gonna show up because of just like a city could develop the congestion is gonna show up and so on we need to

03:06figure out a way to make them work we need to figure out a way to allow multiple companies to share the airspace

03:11for straight arrow news I'm Kennedy Felton and for more unbiased fact driven news

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