Alphabet Unveils App to Provide Air-Traffic Control for Drones
- Wing unit’s drone flight control app has Australian approval
- Air traffic seen as first step for deliveries, other commerce
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The company that brought you free digital maps and email wants to do the same thing for your drone.
Wing LLC, an offshoot of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, on Tuesday unveiled a new app it calls OpenSky that it hopes will become the basis for a full-fledged air-traffic control system to manage the expected growth of this new class of flying devices.