Re:New U.S. FAA rule requires drone owners to register by Fe...
by mikeash on Monday December 14, 2015 @03:05PM
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Google turned up 137,000 results for me for "airline drone near miss." Are you sure you're using it properly?
Many of the hits describe the specific near misses, thus answering your question.
But the question about how many actual problems we are talking about is missing the point. Drones are at an inflection point. People have been flying them for decades as a hobby (they were called "radio control airplanes" back then) without issue, but they're set to become far more popular, far more available, and far easier to use really rapidly. The question is not so much how many problems there are today, but what it'll look like in five or ten years, and how we can get ahead of any potential problems now.
Many of the hits describe the specific near misses, thus answering your question.
But the question about how many actual problems we are talking about is missing the point. Drones are at an inflection point. People have been flying them for decades as a hobby (they were called "radio control airplanes" back then) without issue, but they're set to become far more popular, far more available, and far easier to use really rapidly. The question is not so much how many problems there are today, but what it'll look like in five or ten years, and how we can get ahead of any potential problems now.