• Pandemanium@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    There’s still the issue of birds, which do not like these things in their airspace and, depending on the size, will absolutely either attack drones or be maimed by them. Also, helicopters and small planes often fly quite low. We haven’t had a great record with autonomous cars, but sure, let’s try autonomous flying drones. What could go wrong?

    • ben@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      The big issue with autonomous cars are the other cars that are driven by humans. As well as pedestrians and general rules of the road that need to be applied.

      In theory drones have problems that are much easier to solve, because there’s just less obstacles to deal with.

      The big issues will likely be birds, wind, and rain.