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Drones: Coming Soon To the New Jersey Turnpike?

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-can-trust-us dept.

redletterdave writes "The FAA predicts 30,000 drones will patrol the US skies by 2020, but New Jersey drivers could see these unmanned aerial vehicles hovering above the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway much sooner than that. New Jersey lawmakers from both Republican and Democratic parties have introduced a number of bills to tackle the drones issue before the federal government starts issuing the first domestic drone permits in September 2015."

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  1. Frosty Piss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I for one welcome our hovering unmanned overlords!

  2. Re:Risk vs. Reward? by ArcadeNut · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In addition to that, what is it going to do with an already over stressed Air Traffic Control system?

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  3. Re:Hellfire Enema by mjwx · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the question is,

    Will these drones be targeting tailgaters? If not, when can this feature be implemented.

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  4. Re:Risk vs. Reward? by Alex+Pennace · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Because if they raise the limit to 75, people will drive 85. Americans have been conditioned to believe that the "real" speed limit is at least 10 mph over the posted limit.

    That is an interesting point so I did some research. I found FHWA Report No. FHWA-RD-92-084 (one source of which is at http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel.html but other copies agree) that says "The results of the study indicated that lowering posted speed limits by as much as 20 mi/h (32 km/h), or raising speed limits by as much as 15 mi/h (24 km/h) had little effect on motorist' speed."

    I'm curious if you had any citations to confirm your statement.