[ryan42]

my friend works at a startup that will likely be one of the first flying drones commercially outside of line of sight :)

http://media.precisionhawk.com/topic/faa-grants-precisionhaw...

[falcolas]

To be fair, people have been operating drones commercially outside of line of sight for years now (many of them even legally) using FAA exemptions. There's a number of YouTube videos which show this occurring (look for a FAA exemption ID to be included in the video or description).