HoverAir Versa Camera-Drone Challenges FCC Drone Ban
HoverAir's $750 (USD) Versa is sold as a pocket camera with snap-on propellers, not a drone, testing whether the FCC's foreign drone ban can be sidestepped.
If a product's flight hardware carries no wireless radio, should regulators still treat it as a drone? The FCC built its rules around radios because that is what it can certify, but HoverAir's approach shows how a component split can separate the parts regulators can see from the parts t...