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Wait until one of the raven manage to actually shut down a drone. These birds are very intelligent and absolutely capable of sharing their attack strategy with each other. Even better if there is a big payoff (food) as reward.

They might even put the entire business at risk.

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I'm hoping somebody is staying on top of this because if it gets to the point the business model will get threatened, there will be pressure to "mitigate" or "solve" the problem somehow. I'm hoping the solution will be to tell the business (Google, in this case, apparently) to go do something else.

I used to live in Canberra, right now it's magpie season. They are super aggressive and are also super protected. It's more likely the Raven will experience regulatory capture before the drone company does.

These particular ravens are attacking all the drones in the neighborhood, a garbage truck, and I saw them intimidating a cat earlier.

More likely Google will find a way to eliminate much of the raven population in the area.

Corvids are smart. I'm hoping the ravens start using the drones as personal transportation devices.

I bet they work out they only have to crap on the bag to achieve their goal.

They've been seen using things as tools, I'm waiting for the next video where they realise they can shove a stick into the props to take the drone down.

wait until they get their h̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ beaks on the remote controller.

I wouldn't be surprised if that already happens, and they're calculating a loss factor to 'environmental' circumstances. I wouldn't be surprised if they mass-produce these planes to a low price point because of the loss factor.

I can't wait.

I imagine the birds getting hit by props when attacking it cant br a good think. im surprised the raven in tfa managed to avoid them

I can hear the squawking now… “Flat white! Flat white!”

They'd more likely attack drones carying dry pet food, a favourite treat of corvids. We saw them steal the ice cream paper cup containing the cat's leftover lunch. That pretty much explained why we found paper cups tens of meters away from the feeding spot.

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