It comes after another Wing pilot scheme in Australia, where many orders have been for food and cold medicine - items people need when they do not want to leave the house.
Coffee is also popular, because delivery often takes under four minutes, meaning the drink is still hot on arrival.In Christiansburg, the drones are flying within a radius of about four miles . The tiny aircraft are capable of making a 12-mile round trip, and Wing expects delivery distances to increase.
The company says the use of drones leads to fewer vehicles on the roads, helping the environment and reducing congestion. "We're looking at trends in cities including congestion and environmental sustainability," Wing CEO James Ryan Burgess said.Regarding privacy, Mr Burgess said that while there are cameras on board each drone, they are used for navigation, and images are not streamed back to Wing's main servers.
How does this fit with ever increasing environmental issues bonkers
I do not like this they are all carrying cameras I can wait an extra day to get my things ups as opposed to a day earlier and having a drone roaming my street making videos of everything