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"  You may have thought the future of food delivery service was Burger King implementing door-to-door service. But a startup called TacoCopter has exceeded all expectations by coming up with a plan that would completely eliminate the middleman from food delivery. How does TacoCopter propose to deliver food? With an unmanned drone helicopter, of course. According to Wired, TacoCopter is a Silicon Valley startup that came up with the business plan to deliver tacos via unmanned drone helicopters. The idea behind TacoCopter is simple in theory \u2014 using an application on a smartphone, a customer would order and pay online. A GPS location would also be transmitted and the drone helicopter would then be sent out with the food to deliver the tacos to the consumer at that location. More From Delish: The Weirdest Restaurants in the World TacoCopter&amp;#039;s website launched in July 2011, but the site has only recently garnered attention, receiving more than 14,000 Facebook likes and almost 4,000 retweets. So what&amp;#039;s preventing you from getting on your phone right now and ordering tacos from a quadricopter? The system isn&amp;#039;t a reality yet. Unfortunately, there are several obstacles preventing TacoCopter from taking off, according to Star Simpson, the MIT graduate who originally came up with the idea. First on the list? The U.S. government. Simpson explained to the Huffington Post, &amp;quot;Current U.S. FAA regulations prevent...using UAVs (Unmanned Ariel Vehicles like drones) for commercial purposes at the moment. Honestly I think it&amp;#039;s not totally unreasonable to regulate something as potentially dangerous as having flying robots slinging tacos over people&amp;#039;s heads...On the other hand, it&amp;#039;s a little bit ironic that that&amp;#039;s the case in a country where you can be killed by drone with no judicial review.&amp;quot; FAA restrictions aren&amp;#039;t the only problem. Simpson&amp;#039;s taco delivery system, while making food delivery ridiculously easy for the potential taco eater, would be rather complicated to set up. Simpson noted some kinks that would need to be worked out, such as keeping the food from getting cold, preventing crashes, finding a map that was precise enough to help the drone avoid potential dangers, such as balconies and telephone wires, and dealing with humans. One real concern is that people would see the drone land and simply take someone else&amp;#039;s tacos. More From Delish: Unusual Vending Machine Foods Around the World Despite the legal issues, Simpson believes that if the laws regarding drone helicopters change, &amp;quot;a network of command and recharging centers attached to kitchens capable of fulfilling demand orders could easily satisfy the taco delivery needs of a metropolitan area like San Francisco.&amp;quot; If a drone-based taco delivery system is eventually built, would you use it to order food? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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