Wing Plans First Bay Area Home Drone Deliveries as Walmart Network Targets 270 Locations
Alphabet's Wing plans to bring residential drone delivery to the Bay Area for the first time, after years of testing on Google's Mountain View campus. Wing and Walmart target 270 drone locations by 2027. But the industry is fracturing over safety. Amazon quit the Commercial Drone Alliance, and the FAA blew past its own deadline for beyond-line-of-sight rules. Which Bay Area cities get drones first, and what happens when they share airspace with SFO?
Alphabet's drone delivery unit Wing said Monday it plans to begin residential deliveries in the San Francisco Bay Area in the coming months. The company had tested delivery on Google's Mountain View campus but never offered service to Bay Area homes, making this its first broad push into the region where it was incubated at Google's X lab. Wing did not specify a launch date or name individual cities.
The announcement comes as Wing and Walmart say they are scaling toward more than 270 drone delivery locations by 2027, a network the companies project will reach more than 40 million Americans. Wing currently partners with Walmart and DoorDash across North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Georgia, and Australia.
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