Dorado: A two-kilogram drone causes human injury once per 187M flight hours
Eli Dorado · a16z Podcast | Airspace as the Next Internet-Like Platform · Jan 2, 2019 · at 27:51
Eli Dorado, technology policy researcher at the Mercatus Center, presents empirical safety findings on drone risks derived from 25 years of FAA bird strike data.
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“And for a two kilogram drone, I think we found that there might be a human injury once every hundred eighty seven million years.”
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