An Amazon May Have Crashed A Drone Into Seattle's Space Needle

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. It was never going to work,

but I doubt that a foolish employee misusing his own toy helicopter will have the slightest effect on whether or not it works.

It won't work even if the FAA approves commercial uses for drones - and I think they will before long, but only for limited purposes that don't involve significant risks to the public or other aircraft. Delivering Amazon items using drones, however, would involve thousands of those things buzzing all over the place, probably colliding with each other, and with buildings, people, and even airplanes; crashing on the street, and generally leaving chaos and wreckage in their path. It won't work because it's dangerous.