http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/06/10/faa-drones-bp-oil-pipeline-aerovironment-north-shore/10264197/ (http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/06/10/faa-drones-bp-oil-pipeline-aerovironment-north-shore/10264197/)
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The gates are now cracked, it's only a matter of time.
There will be a slow but progressive acceleration in approvals towards more populated areas, the aircraft
will get larger, and for a while all will be fine.
There will be an incident(s) or accident(s), the great unwashed will be "Outraged!", things will scale back,
but Pandora will win in the end when the new season of "Dancing with the Stars" starts and people forget to be "Outraged!".
And it will be "game on".
My bet is the first unpiloted commercial passenger flights start happening somewhere around 2025,
after a few years of testing with cargo aircraft..
You may well be right.
I will not be a passenger.