U.S. proposes to allow drone operation at night, over people
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#2Commercial drones, not a Pakistani bed time story
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#3Commercial drones, not a Pakistani bed time story
Time to roll out metadata drone strikes-as-a-service.
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#4> The FAA is also proposing allowing discretionary waivers ... for those that do not meet its anti-collision lighting requirement.
Huh? What would be a legitimate reason for that?
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#5> The FAA is also proposing allowing discretionary waivers ... for those that do not meet its anti-collision lighting requirement. Huh? What would be a legitimate reason for that?
Surveillance for law enforcement is the easy one that everybody's going to worry about. I can also see some niche uses for wildlife observation.
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#6Lots of safety concerns are brought up, but I'm really curious how drones will play out in conjunction with noise and NIMBYism. Drones are loud, so I can't imagine that commercial drone activity (Especially at night) will happen without heavy pushback from locals.
NASA did a study and found that the noise drones make is perceived to be more annoying than those from cars [1]. They acknowledge noise-based pushback as an issue, even if they're no louder than cars.
[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201700...
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#7> The FAA is also proposing allowing discretionary waivers ... for those that do not meet its anti-collision lighting requirement. Huh? What would be a legitimate reason for that?
Could just be for night shots over ones house or fireworks... OR for low flying drones to view citizens
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#8This seems inconsistent, coming from the administration of a president who is hyper-concerned about terrorism and tends to overstate the security implications of just about everything. Close the borders, but open the skies?
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#9> Under the FAA’s proposals, operators would be able to fly small unmanned aircraft weighing 0.55 pounds (0.25 kg) or less over populated areas without any additional restrictions.
> For drones weighing more than 0.55 pounds, however, a manufacturer would need to demonstrate that if an “unmanned aircraft crashed into a person, the resulting injury would be below a certain severity threshold.”
I assume this also includes the weight of the package. I'm pretty sure most of my Prime boxes weight more than half a pound.
I wonder what the severity threshold is. Like, are propeller guards enough or is there still innovation that needs to happen?
Re: U.S. proposes to allow drone operation at night, over people
#10Lots of safety concerns are brought up, but I'm really curious how drones will play out in conjunction with noise and NIMBYism. Drones are loud, so I can't imagine that commercial drone activity (Especially at night) will happen without heavy pushback from locals. NASA did a study and found that the noise drones make is perceived to be more annoying than those from cars [1]. They acknowledge noise-based pushback as a…
They are loud for now. That will change.