{"id":418672,"date":"2026-07-30T23:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418672\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:34:02","slug":"drones-could-soon-be-delivering-your-doordash-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/418672\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones Could Soon Be Delivering Your DoorDash Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CA \u2014 DoorDash announced it has received its FAA certification, meaning your next order could soon be delivered by a drone. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear exactly when the in-house drone program, DoorDash Air, will launch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/san-francisco\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The company, which is based in San Francisco, did not provide a timeline, but said it would have news later this year on the aircraft and how the program will fit into its delivery network. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want drone delivery to work for any merchant, anywhere,&#8221; Head of DoorDash Air Harrison Shih said in a statement Wednesday. &#8220;We&#8217;re building the full stack to make that possible from the ground infrastructure to the drone itself, and the handoff systems that make it work together seamlessly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/san-francisco\/bay-area-company-one-step-closer-mass-producing-flying-cars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bay Area Production Begins On Flying Cars \u2014 3,500 Preordered<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/san-francisco\/air-taxi-company-could-connect-east-bay-marin-10-minutes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>The company said that obtaining Part 135 air carrier certification was a &#8220;significant regulatory and technical milestone&#8221; years in the making. <\/p>\n<p>DoorDash is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/uas\/advanced_operations\/package_delivery_drone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eighth drone operator<\/a> to have earned this certification, according to the company, which said it went through a &#8220;rigorous&#8221; process. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operators must pass a robust five-stage evaluation process verifying aircraft airworthiness, maintenance programs, and safety procedures,&#8221; the company said in a statement. &#8220;The bar for safety and operational reliability is where it should be for operating over communities.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO, CA \u2014 DoorDash announced it has received its FAA certification, meaning your next order could soon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-418672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}