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50 pound drone seems inherently more dangerous than a baseball.
by maxerickson 5y ago
50 pound drone seems inherently more dangerous than a baseball.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoEspecially with spinning scythes. It's interesting tech, but a nightmare for the liability lawyers.
- tshaddox 5y agoInherently? I'm not so sure. Of course if you're going to get hit in the head by one at full speed, you might choose the baseball (although not a great choice either way). But if you're choosing between a competently-operated delivery drone delivering a package to your house, or children playing baseball in your backyard, I'd probably guess that the drone is less likely to cause injury or property damage.
- akomtu 5y agoWell, drop a 50 lbs dumbbell on your car from 2nd floor and see what happens. Now if that thing falls on someone's kid running in the neighborhood...
- maxerickson 5y agoAnd then you probably don't need a whole lot of drone deliveries to outnumber the kids playing neighborhood baseball. Kids around here are barely playing catch in their yards.
- tshaddox 5y agoBut when we say “inherently more dangerous” I assume we’re incorporating the likelihood of that actually happening. A dining room table dropping on a kid’s head would be very bad too, but we don’t generally think about tables as being “inherently dangerous.”
- snovv_crash 5y agoTables don't fly through the sky above urban areas as part of their normal operation.