TACOCOPTER Is Unmaned Future Of Food Delivery. OH TECH ++

Finally some technology we can believe in. Drones are best known for being used to blow people up with uncomfortable amounts of clinical disinterest and detachment. However there’s a collection of solid dudes who want to add to that reputation. They want to use drones to deliver tacos. This is the future I asked for.

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Is this the death knell of the delivery guy? A group of aspiring to start delivering tacos via unmanned drone straight to your feet. Unfortunately, the FAA isn’t so keen on the idea.

Star Simpson (whom some of you may remember as the MIT student who accidentally  triggered a bomb scare at Logan Airport  in 2007), Dustin Boyer, and Scott Torborg are the brains behind  Tacocopter, which is right now just a conceptual piece, but which they dream of turning into a reality. The premise is simple: You order tacos from your smartphone, transmitting your coordinates from the phone’s GPS. Soon, a quadcopter would arrive and drop piping hot tacos right at your feet.

Sounds pretty neat, but unfortunately it’s not precisely legal. Current FAA regulations forbid the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for commercial purposes, even delicious ones. And there are still other kinks to work out – like how to keep the Tacocopter from crashing into birds and how to keep customers from stealing the Tacocopter.

Piss on the legalities! If we don’t really give much of a fuckz about legalities when it comes to employing these death dealers in other varieties, surely we can bend a bit of the law for some fucking taco action, right? This is the next great debate of our times.