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If these get mass adoption, won't it make for highly congested skies in urban areas? Another question is would they be a threat to birds? The technology side
by danenania 13y ago
If these get mass adoption, won't it make for highly congested skies in urban areas?
Another question is would they be a threat to birds?
The technology side is cool, but I don't relish the thought of looking out the window and seeing the air packed with delivery drones going to and fro.
- rok3 13y agoThey could be a threat to a lot of things. Small-scale collision detection is far from perfect. A system-wide software glitch could also cause quite a mess in a dense city. I think this could be cool but I would prefer my packages to be delivered by the Planet Express ship.
- gmisra 13y agoWorth re-posting here: http://www.suasnews.com/2013/11/25838/gimball-an-insect-like-crash-happy-flying-robot/ http://www.suasnews.com/2013/11/25838/gimball-an-insect-like...
- baddox 13y agoI think that's a misplaced concern. I'd rather have them in the skies than on the streets, competing with personal automobiles, pedestrians, bicyclists, etc.
- bjg 13y agoAltering natura ecosystem further is more favorable than inconveniencing people while they go about their days?
- baddox 13y agoI was thinking more about the killing of people than the inconveniencing of them.
- Houshalter 13y agoYou don't think roads and cars alter natural ecosystems?
- bjg 13y agoAltering natura ecosystem further is more favorable than inconveniencing people while they go about their days?
- bjg 13y agoAltering natura ecosystem further is more favorable than inconveniencing people while they go about their days?
- brc 13y agoCars and trucks are also a distinct threat to birds. Really - unless you lived on 5th Avenue downstream from a local delivery drone center, I doubt you'd see many drones. I don't see how we would see a sparrow flying past as 'pretty' and a drone flying past as 'ugly'. I would be amused to watch them from a window, just like I get amusement from watching planes take off and land. I guess it depends on your perspective.
- Skinney 13y agoBirds would be a valid concern in the event that they crash into the drone... Drones falling from the sky is due to a pidgin damaging it's rotor would suck. Imagine being hit by a drone and a pidgin :/
- swah 13y agoNow, if those drones could kill some pigeons on the way...