Likely. This is subject to the usual caveats that come into play when dealing with drone aircraft: availability of technology and cost. In particular, I doubt

Likely. This is subject to the usual caveats that come into play when dealing with drone aircraft: availability of technology and cost. In particular, I doubt it would have been feasible to do this with drones back when mbenjaminsmith's father was working on this (or at least I got the impression this was a fair while ago). And even now, since the primary users of the technology are still military and other government agencies, it's not exactly cheap. Depending on how the company values a life and what are the estimates of risk, it might not happen for a while.