U.S. proposes to allow drone operation at night, over people

Re:U.S. proposes to allow drone operation at night, over people by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:45AM (#18911052)

I live on a hill with a busy intersection at the bottom. I get to listen to trucks with jake brakes going down the hill and people accelerating out of the intersection. I don't exactly live somewhere high class so vehicles with rusted out exhausts and Civics with fart cans abound. It doesn't bother me one bit. You get used to it.

It's people in gated communities and quiet suburban neighborhoods where there is rarely much noise who complain about noise because the baseline amount of noise they experience is so low that every single loud noise is highly noticeable.

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Re:U.S. proposes to allow drone operation at night, over people by oarsinsync on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:55AM (#18911101)

Unsure why you're being downvoted, but in my experience, this is absolutely correct.

When I lived on a busy intersection, the noise level was always there, it just became background.

When I lived near a flightpath, the sound of airlines was regularly there, and it also just became background.

I now live in a very quiet area, and every passing motorbike is a disturbance.

Then again, the other thing that's changed is my age and expectations of life. Whether or not that's related or not, I dunno.

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Re:U.S. proposes to allow drone operation at night, over people by SilasX on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:12AM (#18912175)

I've had the opposite experience. I lived in downtown SF. The noise of a loud motorcycle going by is substantively different from the ordinary background noise of city life. Unlike every other noise, you can't e.g. talk while it's going by.

There is very good reason to treat it differently from the usual honks and airbrakes.

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