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by The5thElephant
738 days ago
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I'm sorry but this is just not a reasonable thing to be worried about. Drones are going to be more prevalent across numerous industries and professions, planes and helicopters fly over your head all the time already, and most people are not listening for tire or engine sounds to prepare them to dodge an out of control car. I am in WAY more danger from a police car currently than from a drone mitigating the need for the police to send a car in the first place. |
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Yes, there are some incidents related to these. Keep in mind maintenance requirements, training, and restrictions are much stricter for real aircraft and thus should have a much lower mishap rate.
"and most people are not listening for tire or engine sounds to prepare them to dodge an out of control car."
This is simply untrue. The nature of the loud and unusual sound causes most people to look even if they weren't intentionally looking for it.
"I am in WAY more danger from a police car currently than from a drone mitigating the need for the police to send a car in the first place."
This is only true because the adoption of the drones are so low. If we had similar deployment rates it's likely we would see similar risk levels.
Of course you could mitigate a lot of this by having other restrictions similar to other aircraft, automated parachute and strobe/alarm for failures, designated low risk/disruption flight paths, etc.