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When drones mistake harmless objects for threats

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Giving a flying robot a camera is great until it decides a mailbox is a tactical threat. Autonomous targeting systems struggle significantly with varying lighting conditions and obscured angles. Due to limitations in object recognition software, drones routinely flag entirely benign civilian infrastructure as hostile targets, relying heavily on the human operator to realize it is just a tractor.

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