I was reading an employee profile, in the current Boeing magazine, on Dina Hyde. They referred to a
St Louis Business Journal article on Ms Hyde's work for Boeing.
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"Most recently, she's led Boeing's effort with six other leading aerospace companies and the U.S. Department of Defense, FAA and NASA, on a goal of opening up national air space to unmanned air vehicles, or UAVs, to help with everything from homeland security to spotting tuna for fishermen. The initiative is called UNITE, or the UAV National Industry Team."
Images of Bladerunner or The Fifth Element come to my mind and I'm really not comfortable with it.
Beyond them seeing my pot field or my gamboling with the sheep, I'm concerned with safety.
Unmanned vehicles that will continue to be made lighter and cheaper to handle more instruments and more fuel. Since there's no people on board, we don't need double and triple redundancy on the systems that keep it flying.
If you think bird crap is bad, wait till these things fill the air.
