@H2O MAN,
Considering that article and this statement it made:
"The Federal Aviation Administration has been asked to issue flying rights for a range of pilotless planes to carry out civilian and law-enforcement functions but has been hesitant to act. Officials are worried that they might plow into airliners, cargo planes and corporate jets that zoom around at high altitudes, or helicopters and hot air balloons that fly as low as a few hundred feet off the ground".
Could it be that those who fly in such jets are the ones who generated this article. It's not entirely clear as to who is speaking here. If those "air vehicles" are so good as some say they are, the FAA would have to approve there construction and implmentation, huh? They do that with all other aircraft.
Considering some of those people who travel in those jets it might not be such a bad thing if they were to bring them down. It does seem they do fly above the 'maddening crowd' of their creation. Perhaps coming down is not such a bad thing as they are force to live in that crowd.
We do have satellites that do the same thing (keeping an eye to the ground) but now with those drones we find exception? Makes one wonder who we are trying to keep and eye on? So many eyes and so many things; do you think we will ever find what we are looking for?
William