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100 reports per month. The relatively small city I live in gets this many or more animal-at-large reports on a daily basis which likely constitute a larger pub
by gorkish 8y ago
100 reports per month.
The relatively small city I live in gets this many or more animal-at-large reports on a daily basis which likely constitute a larger public safety threat than people flying their quads around throughout the entire country.
Where is the regulatory capture on leash laws?
- poof131 8y agoAnimal populations aren’t growing at exponential rates. The future scale of drones and autonomous airborne vehicles is going to be huge. The growing possibility of midairs with drones is more significant than bird strikes or deer on a runway. Hobbyist drone pilots are going to lose the safety battle. Just as you can’t drive however you want on public roads, class G airspace is going to resemble class A airspace. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace_class_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace_class_(United_States)
- DocTomoe 8y ago> Animal populations aren’t growing at exponential rates. Erm, yes, if you ignore outside factors, they do. In fact, population growth has been a poster child to explain what exponential growth means for a while...
- cuboidGoat 8y ago>The growing possibility of midairs with drones is more significant than bird strikes That seems amazingly unlikely.
- freeone3000 8y agoReally? There are more drones than birds?
- CleaveIt2Beaver 8y agoMore unaware drones/flying objects with greater mass than birds, maybe?
- ImprovedSilence 8y agoI'd rather come across an animal at large on the sidewalk than watch a drone get sucked into the jet engine of a plane I'm on....