Part of the reason for this is simply that air travel is dangerous so standards are much higher. “If you fly a passenger airplane, often they will say, ‘Oh, a small part isn’t working; we have to go back,’” Singh said. “And people have been flying passenger airplanes for 60 years! I hate to think that a drone might come down on a busy road.” Part of the solution, Singh said, is planning for every situation: “If things fail, the drone has to do something sensible.”
Why does Singh bring up the example of passenger airplanes?
To show how many precautions people take when dealing with aircraft To demonstrate how often airplane parts fail To demonstrate how drones should perform when they need to come down on a busy highway To point out how small drones are compared to typical airplanes