pushing the Federal Aviation Administration to update its rules and allow for wider use in the United States.

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Should Drones Be Allowed Across U.S. Skies?

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• There Are Some Pressing Concerns Though, writes Joan Lowy at The Associated Press: "The FAA’s... afraid that the unmanned drones might crash into cargo planes, airliners and corporate jets at high altitudes, or hot air balloons and helicopters closer to the ground. It also worries about loss of communication and the lack of warning systems and transponders."

• Safety Comes First, says Hank Krakowski, the head of the FAA's air traffic operations: "I think industry and some of the operators are frustrated that we're not moving fast enough, but safety is first... This isn't Afghanistan. This isn't Iraq. This is a part of the world that has a lot of light airplanes flying around, a lot of business jets."end quote. 

Thank God there are some people with sense here in the U.S. I agree that this isn't Baghdad or Kandahar. We don't want to see these drones flying into LAX takeoff or landing zones because the artificial intelligence lost the remote pilot signal. (A friend once made this mistake in a 1949 Stinson that we were flying down from Santa Barbara in when I was about 12. I said to the pilot, "Isn't that jet coming right at us?" And he said, "OH My God! I was so busy talking to your Dad that I flew into LAX Takeoff Flight pattern for passenger jets." So we dove about 5000 feet and when we pulled out the wings shook and I was worried they would come off. The point is there would be no human pilot in a flying drone weaponized or not. Just like the planes that went into Ground Zero in New York drones are like missiles even unarmed. This is an important thing for us to consider when no pilot is connected to the artificial intelligence on a flying drone. Though this could be just as bad on a ground(car or truck drone) if it went up an exit ramp onto a freeway or(a water traveling drone) if it started hitting sailboats, powerboats etc in a harbor, but a flying drone is potentially likely to accidentally cause the greatest loss of life when it hits a passenger plane when disconnected from it's human pilot on the ground because of signal error.