Originally Posted by
Photonic
Maybe these things need an "Abort" red button on the controller that does this. A quick drop to 20 feet.
Better yet, make that Abort function mandatory by law for all drones, built into the drone's own radio receiver. Program it to kick in automatically if it receives a certain encrypted radio signal. All manned aircraft then required to have a cheap radio transmitter generating this signal at a certain radius around the aircraft, say 1/2 mile. Aircraft gets anywhere close, drone drops close to the ground. Problem solved.
That process takes a special kind of stupidity to even suggest it.
A team of cops out searching for a missing child have a helicopter or drone providing overview, and the rapid descent of a drone into their midst is a good thing because...?
Now we will have drones crashing into other drones or manned aircraft to avoid doing just that.