Buzz of drones is more annoying than any other kind of vehicle | New Scientist

by Alex Kirkpatrick

18 July 2017

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Amazon, UPS, Domino’s Pizza and other companies planning drone delivery services may be heading for discord. A preliminary NASA study has discovered that people find the noise of drones more annoying than that of ground vehicles, even when the sounds are the same volume.

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