About 3-4 years ago, Kenya had a chance to be on the cutting edge of setting up drone logistics. We blew it. Spectacularly. Years on, Aviation regulators still clung to "security" objections, and then introduced extraordinarily draconian UAV operation rules.
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Last November, KCAA was reminding the citizens that the use of UAVs here is, in their view, 100% illegal. Vide: businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/comp…
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Barely 4 months later, we're likely in the very early stages of a public health crisis. Had we spent the last 5 or so years actually experimenting with what works, and what does not as far as drone logistics are concerned, we would have one other coping mechanism in place.
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Want to do lots of temperature scans, monitor traffic? UAVs are pretty hard to beat on a cost/hr basis. Need to deliver small packages with limited human contact, *fast*? Again, UAVs are pretty hard to beat.
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Even in a pandemic, they're getting a fair bit of traction.
Vide: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
And: gizmodo.co.uk/2020/02/china-…
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Vide: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
And: gizmodo.co.uk/2020/02/china-…
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There shall be many, many things that will come back to rip out collective spines out because of years of little, or no investment [public healthcare, water & sanitation especially]. Years of eroding public trust & Govt competence too.
This, IMO, is one of them.
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This, IMO, is one of them.
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