Drones are poised to reshape home design

Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by rhodo on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:12PM (#25354900)

Drones are roughly as loud as a gas powered leaf blower [1]. I bet the hype is going to die real quick when people realize how annoying the noise is. Or at least I hope. Drones are cool but imagining the high-pitched whine of a even a few of these at all times gives me a headache.

[1] https://theconversation.com/drones-to-deliver-incessant-buzz...

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by Groxx on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:06PM (#25355219)

That article seems to be claiming that gas leafblowers are 80-85dB.

That's absolutely ridiculous. The quiet ones might be that low, but others can go well over 100dB.

(which is not intended to claim that drones are quieter - leafblower-ish volume sounds about right. they're noisy.)

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by xwdv on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:49PM (#25355097)

Um excuse me? Suburbs are filled with the sound of gas powered leaf blowers and monstrous riding mowers all the time from landscaping companies often for hours at a time what makes you think noise is the reason drones will be banned?

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by jcims on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:55PM (#25355152)

Drones tend to have a discordance and dimensionality to the sound that lawn equipment lacks.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by jbay808 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:09PM (#25355238)

Yes definitely; it comes from the four motor whines all slightly out of tune with each other. It's a very annoying and alien sound.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by nitrogen on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:04PM (#25363906)

It also triggers survival instincts due to the similarity with the sound of swarming insects.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by hannasanarion on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:20PM (#25355314)

The average suburban home doesn't get 3 leafblowings a day.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by xwdv on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @10:08AM (#25359212)

Doesn’t have to be the same home, any home can be getting blown and you’ll hear it.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by m463 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:52AM (#25356957)

My friend showed me his dji mavic and it flew up and became inaudible

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by ogre_codes on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:11PM (#25355253)

This is my concern too. I'd far rather they waited a few more years and just used small electric cars on the roads than having loud ass drones buzzing overhead.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by TylerE on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:32PM (#25355009)

Can't be any worse than the rumble of a UPS truck. That carries.

A drone, at least, can stay at an inaudible (say, 500ft) altitude for most of it's trip.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by foolfoolz on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:35PM (#25355023)

The UPS truck comes to your street once a day. Maybe you get 3 delivery trucks total.

A drone could be in your neighborhood every hour all afternoon. There is someone near me who flies theirs at night, i can hear it much farther away than any delivery truck

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by apaprocki on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:59PM (#25355173)

That is not a general fact. UPS visits our street probably closer to 5 times per day. Then there’s FedEx, USPS, and Prime all also visiting multiple times per day. Thankfully they are not as loud as the landscape care outfits that run the gas powered blowers n’ mowers.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by cma on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:11PM (#25355256)

For deliveries it could have wings and only be loud during vertical landings.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by shiftpgdn on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:42PM (#25355066)

That UPS truck rumble will be long gone in a few years as Ford, Mercedes and Rivian roll out their electric trucks and vans.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by jcims on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:54PM (#25355143)

And Arrival - https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-29-ups-arrival-electric-tru...

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by CapitalistCartr on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:51PM (#25355115)

They are definitely audible (clearly) at 500 feet.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by blackrock on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:47PM (#25355088)

This sounds like a business opportunity for someone to create a noise canceling mechanism for drones.

Just a device to emit the counter sound waves to cancel out the drone itself.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by austinwade on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:32PM (#25355008)

What a terrible outlook.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by mrfusion on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:08PM (#25355234)

Why not design them like owls? Use flapping wings instead of propellers. Copy how the owls feathers are arranged for quite flight.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by hannasanarion on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:18PM (#25355303)

Because owls only weigh 4 pounds and can only carry an additional 1 pound.

Also, bird flight isn't just "flap wings". Birds have similar dexterity in their wings as you have in your hands. They maneuver by changing the shape of their fingers.

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by tzs on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:43PM (#25355448)

Is that an inherent physical limit of the design of owls, or are owls not much bigger than that because that's the size that works best in their niche in their environment?

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Re:Drones are poised to reshape home design by jfengel on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:21PM (#25364200)

I don't think anybody knows. We can't mechanically reproduce the motion of owl wings so there's no chance to see how far it scales.

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