Drone Delivery: Faster, Cleaner, Cheaper … & Stuck in a Regulatory Limbo

Delivery drones have long promised faster, cleaner and more efficient ways to move everything from groceries and takeout to medicine and other essential goods. Yet more than a decade after companies began predicting widespread drone delivery, the technology remains surprisingly limited in the United States.

In a new StosselTV segment, R Street’s Adam Thierer, Resident Senior Fellow for Technology and Innovation, joins John Stossel to discuss why. Thierer has long studied how emerging technologies are shaped by regulatory policy and is the author of Permissionless Innovation.

StosselTV’s segment, “Drone Delivery: Faster, Cleaner, Cheaper … & Stuck in a Regulatory Limbo,” features Thierer discussing the regulatory barriers facing drone delivery in the United States.