The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office is at the front end of a year-long AI policing experiment, putting a completely autonomous, $200,000 squad car equipped with thermal imaging drones to the test.
The so-called Police Unmanned Ground (PUG) Patrol Partner was developed and donated by Policing Lab and Perrone Robotics. The SUV comes on a Ford Explorer platform, fitted with 360-degree cameras, thermal sensors, license plate readers, and a rooftop drone dock. U.S. National Parks have prohibited the use of drones for any reason – absent a special permit – since 2014, yet increasing numbers of drone pilots have ignored the ban, and there are some reports that it’s gotten noticeably worse since the government shutdown, although that is not entirely clear. Conducting illegal drone flights can lead to penalties of up to $5,000 and six months in jail. With some applicability to the UAV segment, more than a decade of hard work, legal setbacks, and community advocacy has finally come to fruition, with the Modernization of Special Airworthiness Certification (MOSAIC) legislation officially becoming a final rule on October 22, 2025. Since around three-quarters of the entire general aviation
fleet now falls under the sport aviation category, we can confidently say that MOSAIC was well worth the wait. All this — and MORE in today’s episode of Airborne-NextGen!!!
Airborne-NextGen 10.28.25 is chock full of info in this Weekly News Episode, Tuesday, October 28th, 2025… Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Holland Lee, Sophie Hurlock, Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, and Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, this episode covers:
- Miami Deploys Autonomous Police Cruisers With Thermal Drones
- Drone Pilots Ignoring National Parks Ban
- Phase 1 of MOSAIC Goes Live
- Affordable Flying Expo Announces Industry MOSAIC Town Hall
- Lockheed Martin Invests In Venus To Advance Rocket Propulsion
- ERAU And Brazilians Research Electric Aircraft Cooling
- Korea Taps Archer to Launch eVTOL Operations
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