Foxx: The US has the world's most complicated airspace
Anthony Foxx · a16z Podcast | A Society Under Construction - Modernizing Infrastructure · Jan 2, 2019 · at 3:26
Anthony Foxx, former US Secretary of Transportation, explains the infrastructure and regulatory challenges of integrating autonomous drones into US airspace.
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“The U S has the most complicated airspace in the world because we've got so many different objects up there already.”
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