Researchers at Virginia Tech University, working with State Farm insurance and ParaZero drone safety systems, have finally answered the question of what happens when a drone crashes into a windshield. Data gathered in the study resulted in State Farm® receiving an FAA waiver to fly over moving vehicles as of …
Read More »What the Drone Crash Video Means for the Industry
News and Commentary. The University of Dayton Research Institute recently released a video showing that when a Phantom 2 quadcopter hits the wing of an aircraft directly, bad things happen. The internet and news media, unsurprisingly, have gone to town: “Devastating Damage,” “Serious Damage,” and “Growing Risk” are all part …
Read More »The Cost of Carelessness: Operator Sentenced in Space Needle…
By Wknight94 [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0 ] Seattle’s Space Needle appears to draw drones, and it appears that evidently officers have determined sufficient is sufficient. Seattle lawmakers pushed for drone rules again in 2014 when a drone video of the Space Needle went viral. Since then, Seattle has had …
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