New regulations are in the works to permit small commercial drones over groups of people, The Associated Press reports. An industry advisory committee from the Federal Aviation Administration presented recommendations creating four categories of commercial drones. Any drone weighing a half-pound or less would have permission to fly over crowds with nearly zero restriction. Drones in the other three categories weighing more than half a pound would be required to fly 20 feet overhead and 10 feet laterally. The new recommendations could provoke public backlash, according to the report. "We are concerned that allowing some unmanned aircraft to operate over and within close proximity to people will heighten the anxiety of a society that is already hypersensitive to the introduction of 'drones' into our communities," Dave Mathewson, the executive director of the Academy of Model Aeronautics, said in a statement.
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