Flix Systems founder Martin Garcia compares the regulatory environments for testing and operating commercial unmanned aerial vehicles between Mexico and the United States.
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Garcia: Autonomous industrial drones will be the largest market wave
“Now the third wave, which is the one that is coming very soon, and it's already starting at some companies and places, is what I call the industrial UAVs, and those UAVs are going to be probably, in my opinion, the biggest wave in terms of business and penetra…”
Assertion Contradicted
Garcia: 70% of drone crashes are caused by human error
“Approximately 70% of all UAV crashes are due to human error and not the UAV itself.”
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Garcia: DJI drones are built for photography, limiting industrial modifications
“For example, this company called DJI, they have amazing UAVs. Most of them are for photography, but they don't, they cannot be expanded or modified that easily unless you, Make some special attachments and stuff like that”
Insight
Garcia: Commercial drones must be engineered around their specific payload
“Usually, people think that they buy drones, and then they think of the payload, but it's usually the other way around. Whatever you want to do, you have to think of what the payload is, and then you build the drone around that.”
Disclosure
Garcia: Flix Systems retains hardware control by selling services
“No, it's paid, but it's only for the service. The drone itself, we're not intending to sell it yet because we want to optimize it and we also want to keep control of the flight.”
Assertion Supported
Garcia: Drone market leader DJI already employs 1,500 developers
“Absolutely, and I know they are, and they already have 1500 developers.”