Pressures Mounting on FAA to Release Drone Rules

Computerworld's Jaikumar Vijayan writes that pressure is mounting on the Federal Aviation Administration to issue rules governing private drone use with Amazon and Google working on plans to use drones for commercial purposes and trade group Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and other groups like media companies sharply criticizing the agency for moving slowly on rules to integrates drones into American airspace. The FAA is still more than a year away from releasing final rules, but a spokesman told Computerworld that the agency is on track to issue an intial draft of its rules before the end of the year.