Re:Amazon details its plan for how drones can fly safely ove...
by Retra on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @09:48PM
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Planes do not have the maneuverability of drones. Drones can hover in place. They can stop. They are small and light. Planes can't do this at all.
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Re:Amazon details its plan for how drones can fly safely ove...
by TeMPOraL on Thursday July 30, 2015 @05:51AM
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Depends on the type of drones you want to use and their range. Helicopter-like drones have very poor range and flight time, so this would limit your range considerably. And if you go to a plane-like drone, or even some kind of hybrid mode (eg. VTOL), suddenly you can't really do an emergency hover when cruising to destination.
But even if they find a way to handle the traffic, I was just saying that there will be traffic and that this poses serious problems.