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Would not expect it to be any worse than a bird strike, which I hear are common enough. Eventually the firmware of the drone would know to avoid airplanes at al
by x5n1 11y ago
Would not expect it to be any worse than a bird strike, which I hear are common enough. Eventually the firmware of the drone would know to avoid airplanes at all cost and perhaps have some sort of equipment in there to limit them ever flying close to airplanes. The regulation should ideally force this, for drones to have sensors and firmware to avoid airplanes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_strike
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoBird strikes are bad enough. And lots of efforts made to lure birds away from airports. Consider if you loaded the drone into a cannon and fired it at a stationary airplane, hitting at 250MPH. That's 366 feet per second. Like a low-velocity bullet. Into an aluminum airframe. A BB going that speed will puncture a pop can. A 5lb drone going that speed may puncture the skin of an airplane?