Aircraft reliability will be a significant hurdle to this expansion. Questions of unmanned aircraft reliability are often paired with a criticism of their safety record, including accident causation and rates. A thorough understanding of unmanned aircraft accident data is needed by policy makers to make accurate decisions regarding the development of regulatory requirements for unmanned aircraft. Because policy makers are influenced by their constituents, an accurate characterization of the data in the public forum is also needed.
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