In fact, Madam Chair, though you, we at the Consumer Technology Association are trying to uphold that broad spectrum of interest in drones, ranging from the kid who wants to play with the toy drone to more sophisticated commercial operations involving drones that are often on the same platform as can be bought by the consumer.
It's important to have a policy framework that allows somebody to play with a drone, get interested, and then decide that they could make a business out of it or that they could start a small business and provide a service, maybe providing a service to their local real estate firm by taking pictures.
We want to have a pathway for those people—maybe kids, in some cases, or adults—to learn about this technology, play with it, get interested in it, and do something with it.
At the association level, we're certainly aware, broadly, of the activities of our members, which range from providing new features and new models on their drones, introduced every few months, to companies experimenting with ways of controlling multiple drones at the same time—not just singles, but swarm approaches to drone technology.
There are a lot of interesting things going on in this industry, but it does have kind of a personal dimension to it that we want to keep in mind too. Today's recreational user might be tomorrow's small business owner.