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50 pound drone seems inherently more dangerous than a baseball.


Especially with spinning scythes.

It's interesting tech, but a nightmare for the liability lawyers.


Inherently? I'm not so sure. Of course if you're going to get hit in the head by one at full speed, you might choose the baseball (although not a great choice either way). But if you're choosing between a competently-operated delivery drone delivering a package to your house, or children playing baseball in your backyard, I'd probably guess that the drone is less likely to cause injury or property damage.


Well, drop a 50 lbs dumbbell on your car from 2nd floor and see what happens. Now if that thing falls on someone's kid running in the neighborhood...


But when we say “inherently more dangerous” I assume we’re incorporating the likelihood of that actually happening. A dining room table dropping on a kid’s head would be very bad too, but we don’t generally think about tables as being “inherently dangerous.”


Tables don't fly through the sky above urban areas as part of their normal operation.


And then you probably don't need a whole lot of drone deliveries to outnumber the kids playing neighborhood baseball.

Kids around here are barely playing catch in their yards.




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