From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and I'm Emily Vanderbush. And this is Mass Ave.

Just last month, for the first time ever, Australian lifeguards used a drone aircraft to rescue two young swimmers trapped in dangerous swells half a mile offshore.

When the lifeguard operating the drone heard that help was needed, he piloted the drone to the swimmer's location and dropped down a rescue pod that inflated when it hit the water,

allowing the swimmers to get back to the beach safely.

Perhaps the only thing more extraordinary than the rescue itself, which by the way was executed in just 70 seconds,

way faster than a human life card could have gotten there, was that the drone was

unveiled to the public just that morning. Not bad for your first day on the job. For years, analysts

and advocates have talked about the revolutionary potential of these type of drones. So what's

the hold up? This week, we talk with Jason Sneed, a policy analyst in Heritage's Meath Center for Legal

and Judicial Studies, who's done extensive research on drones and the rules and regulations

that come with them.

Jason recently wrote an op-ed, making the case that it's time to let these revolutionary

aircrafts soar.

Woody wrote, Insp inspired today's episode.

Hi Jason, thanks for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

All right, let's start at a really basic level.

Let's say that this really cool drone that I ordered on Amazon that comes with a camera, it was about a hundred bucks, it just arrived.

And I can't wait to get outside because I

want to take some aerial shots of my home. What are the rules around this? What do I need to know?

Well, it's a pretty natural impulse if you just ordered something that you think of as a toy to

want to get out and play with it immediately, particularly if you're a young kid on Christmas morning.

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