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Drones are roughly as loud as a gas powered leaf blower [1]. I bet the hype is going to die real quick when people realize how annoying the noise is. Or at leas
by rhodo 6y ago
Drones are roughly as loud as a gas powered leaf blower [1]. I bet the hype is going to die real quick when people realize how annoying the noise is. Or at least I hope. Drones are cool but imagining the high-pitched whine of a even a few of these at all times gives me a headache.
[1] https://theconversation.com/drones-to-deliver-incessant-buzzing-noise-and-packages-116257 https://theconversation.com/drones-to-deliver-incessant-buzz...
- austinwade 6y agoWhat a terrible outlook.
- TylerE 6y agoCan't be any worse than the rumble of a UPS truck. That carries. A drone, at least, can stay at an inaudible (say, 500ft) altitude for most of it's trip.
- foolfoolz 6y agoThe UPS truck comes to your street once a day. Maybe you get 3 delivery trucks total. A drone could be in your neighborhood every hour all afternoon. There is someone near me who flies theirs at night, i can hear it much farther away than any delivery truck
- apaprocki 6y agoThat is not a general fact. UPS visits our street probably closer to 5 times per day. Then there’s FedEx, USPS, and Prime all also visiting multiple times per day. Thankfully they are not as loud as the landscape care outfits that run the gas powered blowers n’ mowers.
- cma 6y agoFor deliveries it could have wings and only be loud during vertical landings.
- shiftpgdn 6y agoThat UPS truck rumble will be long gone in a few years as Ford, Mercedes and Rivian roll out their electric trucks and vans.
- jcims 6y agoAnd Arrival - https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-29-ups-arrival-electric-trucks-order-investment.html https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-29-ups-arrival-electric-tru...
- CapitalistCartr 6y agoThey are definitely audible (clearly) at 500 feet.
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- blackrock 6y agoThis sounds like a business opportunity for someone to create a noise canceling mechanism for drones. Just a device to emit the counter sound waves to cancel out the drone itself.
- xwdv 6y agoUm excuse me? Suburbs are filled with the sound of gas powered leaf blowers and monstrous riding mowers all the time from landscaping companies often for hours at a time what makes you think noise is the reason drones will be banned?
- jcims 6y agoDrones tend to have a discordance and dimensionality to the sound that lawn equipment lacks.
- hannasanarion 6y agoThe average suburban home doesn't get 3 leafblowings a day.
- xwdv 6y agoDoesn’t have to be the same home, any home can be getting blown and you’ll hear it.
- Groxx 6y agoThat article seems to be claiming that gas leafblowers are 80-85dB. That's absolutely ridiculous. The quiet ones might be that low, but others can go well over 100dB. (which is not intended to claim that drones are quieter - leafblower-ish volume sounds about right. they're noisy.)
- mrfusion 6y agoWhy not design them like owls? Use flapping wings instead of propellers. Copy how the owls feathers are arranged for quite flight.
- hannasanarion 6y agoBecause owls only weigh 4 pounds and can only carry an additional 1 pound. Also, bird flight isn't just "flap wings". Birds have similar dexterity in their wings as you have in your hands. They maneuver by changing the shape of their fingers.
- tzs 6y agoIs that an inherent physical limit of the design of owls, or are owls not much bigger than that because that's the size that works best in their niche in their environment?
- jfengel 6y agoI don't think anybody knows. We can't mechanically reproduce the motion of owl wings so there's no chance to see how far it scales.
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- ogre_codes 6y agoThis is my concern too. I'd far rather they waited a few more years and just used small electric cars on the roads than having loud ass drones buzzing overhead.
- m463 6y agoMy friend showed me his dji mavic and it flew up and became inaudible