He added: "Cambridge probably isn't a bad place to trial drones, as it's a relatively dry part of the country and aircraft-free, but there are still bound to be accidents and collisions".
Parcel service company SF Express tested drone delivery back in 2013, while Australia was the first place to really trial drone-based delivery.
The ecommerce company is using the test field to trial drones weighing under 55 lbs carrying packages ranging up to 5 lbs, flying through airspace of between 200 and 500 feet at speeds of up to 50 MPH.
Autonomy systems are shrinking in terms of required physical components, and Amazon and others are now actually trialling drone delivery.
Chinese internet giant Alibaba is also currently carrying out its own private trials of drone technology for deliveries.
The company has a few more trials to run before drone system gets off the ground, but it seems pretty excited about the idea.
Amazon kicked off a delivery drone trial in the UK in December, but, laughably, the 'beta trial' has just two users.
Amazon's UK drone trial is limited to items weighing 5lb or less that can be delivered within 30 minutes.
That, in turn, led to their extraordinary — and still officially unacknowledged — decision to kill Mr. Awlaki, without a trial, in a drone strike last September.
The country, which is the world's largest archipelago, is the location for e-commerce giant JD.com's first drone trial outside of its native China.
It's his Amazon delivery materializing like manna from heaven — thanks to the high-profile Prime Air drone trial he's been selected to participate in.
