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Require small flying drones to enclose their rotor blades to protect people from their sharp spinning tips.

Created by L.L. on January 27, 2015

The tips of the blades of these drones can be sharp and they rotate fast.

Blade tips slicing into a person's face could cause a particularly severe injury to a person's eyes.

Untrained people fly them. Trained people can make mistakes. A pilot might loose control for no fault of their own.

Requiring drones to be fitted with guards around the rotor blades wouldn't solve every potential problem, but it seems like a simple method to address this particular threat.

An cheaper alternative would be to have a rotor blade cast with a ring connecting the blade tips. This ring would be a spinning surface that could cause a burn against the skin, but better than slicing blade tips.

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