Unmanned vehicle association CEO doesn't like the "d-word" Don't call unmanned vehicle systems "drones" when Michael Toscano is within earshot. In an interview with the investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica, Toscano, CEO of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, said he doesn't like to use the "d-word." "Just when I say that word, ‘drrrrone,' it has a negative connotation," he said. "Drone bees: they're not smart, they just follow orders, they do things autonomously, and they die. When you think of a drone it's just that, it does one thing and it blasts things out of the air." Toscano's industry has been fighting a public relations war against… Read More