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I saw a few of the contraptions at Oshkosh.... No way in hell am I going to trust my life to an upscaled large RC drone on a daily commute. In my old school fixed wing airplanes, if the engine quits, I pick a field and do a "controlled" dead stick landing. In these multi motored or quad copter type contraptions, if a lipo battery pack or some circuit board fails, you are a brick falling to the ground. If it is a equipped with a ballistic chute, maybe you survive, but your $100k plus toy is still likely totaled.
OTOH, I think unmanned military vehicles and video taking rc drones are awesome and of great value, but no way do I see these becoming mainstream for public transportation uses.
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