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I cannot argue the noise aspect, but I do thing not allowing experiments in drone delivery a bad thing. I strongly suspect that self-driving cars are on the hor
by mgr86 12y ago
I cannot argue the noise aspect, but I do thing not allowing experiments in drone delivery a bad thing. I strongly suspect that self-driving cars are on the horizon. With that presumption, I suspect self-flying cars would not be far off and that the technology that would drive that would come from parcel delivering drones.
- jkaljundi 12y agoFor experimentation the FAA has set up a program called UAS test sites: http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsid=15575 http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsid=15... and http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/ http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/ No problem with testing, but it must be done step by step.
- mgr86 12y agoyes, but would the motivation and money for testing not be more available if there was an allowable marketplace* * note - I didn't read your links completely.
- logfromblammo 12y agoThis ignores the economics. If you look to the FDA as the template, the strict testing regime and the cost of navigating through the process ensures that only patent-protected drugs ever get approved for human medical use. I extrapolate, perhaps inappropriately, that the combination of an FAA ban on commercial drones and a testing initiative will mean that only proprietary, patent-protected, and closed-source drones--and their software packages--will ever have access to this potentially interesting and useful market. And that barrier to entry will make everything more expensive, in the same way that a GPS becomes more expensive when installed in an avionics panel than when it is strapped to the pilot's thigh. Premature optimization is not optimization at all.