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Study Concludes Small Drones Offer Small Risk

September 19, 2017 by Miriam McNabb 3 Comments

A Virginia Tech study concludes that small commercial drones are very unlikely to cause serious injuries to people on the ground. In January, Virginia Tech described their testing, using crash test dummies equipped with sensors to measure the impact that a drone would have if it fell out of the sky and hit a person. Now, Bloomberg News reports that the resulting journal … [Read more...] about Study Concludes Small Drones Offer Small Risk

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