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What's the aversions? A drone is a plane that is remote controlled or flies itself... a passenger drone or a manned uav would be a remote/self controlled airpla
by wernercd 10y ago
What's the aversions? A drone is a plane that is remote controlled or flies itself... a passenger drone or a manned uav would be a remote/self controlled airplane that has cargo: people.
Not that people won't butcher the terminology (ATM Machine), but even at the worse, these shouldn't be to bad...
- imglorp 10y agoHow about autonomous multi-rotor? There's no assumption regarding the payload then.
- dcgoss 10y ago(U)nmanned (A)erial (V)ehicle = UAV. A manned UAV would be a bit of an oxymoron.
- chatmasta 10y agoPassengers != manned. They aren't operating the vehicle, they're cargo.
- ams6110 10y agoYes but UAVs are built to an overall lower standard of reliability and safety precisely because there are no people on board.
- lujim 10y agoeven if that is the definition of manned it still doesn't make sense. because the "U" in UAV stands for Unmanned not Unpiloted. However "Manned space flight" would still apply even if the astronaut was just ballast right? A trip to mars would be completely automated but you still wouldn't call it unmanned if a scientist was on board that did nothing but scientist stuff.
- hueving 10y agoWhich is exactly why 'manned UAV' makes no sense.
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- nacs 10y agoUAV = Unmanned Aerial Vehicle "Manned Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" = nonsense