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Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by poof131 on Thursday September 27, 2018 @06:03PM (#18089196)
Animal populations aren’t growing at exponential rates. The future scale of drones and autonomous airborne vehicles is going to be huge. The growing possibility of midairs with drones is more significant than bird strikes or deer on a runway. Hobbyist drone pilots are going to lose the safety battle. Just as you can’t drive however you want on public roads, class G airspace is going to resemble class A airspace. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspace_class_(United_States)

Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by cuboidGoat on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:48AM (#18092361)
>The growing possibility of midairs with drones is more significant than bird strikes

That seems amazingly unlikely.

Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by DocTomoe on Friday September 28, 2018 @01:36AM (#18091299)
> Animal populations aren’t growing at exponential rates.

Erm, yes, if you ignore outside factors, they do. In fact, population growth has been a poster child to explain what exponential growth means for a while...

Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by freeone3000 on Friday September 28, 2018 @08:19AM (#18092730)
Really? There are more drones than birds?
Re:Drone Hobbyists Angered by Congress Ending the Aerial Wil... by CleaveIt2Beaver on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:42AM (#18094291)
More unaware drones/flying objects with greater mass than birds, maybe?