“.. However, what NASA’s Integrated Aviation Systems Program Director Ed Waggoner calls a “major milestone” is seen as a worrying trend by some who fear that the normalization of unmanned drones buzzing across the sky is a slippery slope – particularly if such drones become armed…”
Yes, and also the typical progression of having these transferred into HSA, State and local police units just like MRAPs have in the past decade.
“New normal? NASA’s Predator drone flies solo in commercial airspace for 1st time”
From: Russia Today
Ask the average Iraqi, Afghani, or Pakistani if these sky borgs made them feel safer. It is the same feeling only worse than seeing a police car behind you.