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[Jan Whitaker]

At 01:06 PM 3/12/2013, Jim Birch wrote:

>...I refer, of course, to the type of machine suggested for short range
>urban delivery of non-lethal payloads.

That's where the system problems come in. Cars are part of a cultural 
system. Millions of them travel roads every day. There are accidents. 
But people know how to behave in that cultural system, pretty much.

UAVs are anomalies in that system. We have wires and poles and signs 
and plants and all sorts of physical objects in spaces where cars 
don't go. I guess you could put in some sort of avoidance sensor like 
aerial rhumbas??? But what is the distinction between a porch roof 
and the door step? Where is the package going to end up? What is the 
rule set? The non-road spatial objects are practically infinite.

Jan



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