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Which will quickly be made illegal if it interferes with major commercial activity
I'm not sure what "anti-drone tech" could mean other than RF jamming, which is already very illegal.
Birdshot?
FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which will quickly be made illegal if it interferes with major commercial activity
I'm not sure what "anti-drone tech" could mean other than RF jamming, which is already very illegal.
High velocity low mass shot pellets propelled in the drone’s general direction via pyrotechnics or similar?
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#73This will revolutionize the delivery industry. I imagine trucks will become mobile drone carriers with drones landing and taking off with packages as they travel through the city.
I imagine trucks will become mobile drone carriers with drones landing and taking off with packages as they travel through the city.
I saw a mockup video of this once. I think it was for UPS, but I might be remembering that part wrong. The upshot was that it's not useful in cities, but could be used to make exurban and rural deliveries much more efficient because the delivery truck doesn't have to trundle down a bunch of long driveways.
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#74This will revolutionize the delivery industry. I imagine trucks will become mobile drone carriers with drones landing and taking off with packages as they travel through the city.
Without even drones, trucks could be motherships that dispatch deliverers on electric scooters for the last quarter mile. Scooters could catch up with the truck, dock to recharge and get new packages and then roll out again
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#75Whenever I encounter people flying drones - for example at the park - I find it highly obnoxious. The buzzing of their rotors is noise pollution that ruins the peace of a park/natural area, and while I recognize the right to record in public spaces, there’s something especially creepy about a drone flying along a jogging path near you armed with the latest 4K cameras. I think drone enthusiasts don’t understand how th…
Honestly this just sounds like NIMBY. First there are loud drones and quiet drones, noise pollution can be regulated. Next the video from a drone for spying on a woman jogging is nothing compared to someone with a decent DSLR with a telephoto that makes zero noise. And third drone deliveries could have airspace carved out that avoids residential or places that would annoy people. Now that said some people are obnoxio…
The idea of police drones flying around is honestly even worse
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The need for regulation and education around proper usage of consumer drones is definitely clear, as shown by your (and many other people's) experience! Most enthusiasts would agree that a solution is needed. Most drone incidents have been untrained or reckless operators piloting a DJI drone somewhere they shouldn't. Most of the concern with proposed Remote ID regulations was because 1) The regulation didn't actually…
People do not need educating not to spy on teenage girls with drones, they do not need training to not do it.
But that's not why the FAA is regulating it, and these regulations won't stop that. They're regulating because people are flying recklessly above 400ft, above roadways, and in restricted airspace.
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#78Even though I don't fly over people, I retrofitted a parachute onto my DJI drone just in case. It automatically deploys if the drone loses power or control. It doesn't impact flight characteristics or battery life by much.
I feel like a basic safety like this would be a prudent and more effective measure for overhead flights than self-transmitting "license plates" (which I agree are at least better than the silly internet requirement).
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#79This will revolutionize the delivery industry. I imagine trucks will become mobile drone carriers with drones landing and taking off with packages as they travel through the city.
Is it really worth it to have your peace disturbed by hundreds of annoying little helicopters just so you can have a panini sandwich delivered in 2 minutes instead of 10?
What about all the paninis you can get if you can make the shot though? Think of it as urban duck hunting.
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#80This will revolutionize the delivery industry. I imagine trucks will become mobile drone carriers with drones landing and taking off with packages as they travel through the city.
Cities feel like the last place that would be a good fit for airborne delivery, at least in the US.
Take NYC for example: Delivery people on e-bikes are still harassed incessantly by the NYPD and community boards by people being scared of the possibility of being hit by them.
Factor in our paranoia about terrorism and a single accidentally dropped package would likely result in counter terrorism and bomb squads being called in.
I couldn’t imagine any proposal for giant flying robots with multi-pound payloads hovering overhead be taken seriously by even the most progressive leaders.
In hard to reach / rural areas, I could see some benefits from drone technology though. Drone chainsaws, anyone?[0]
[0] https://nypost.com/video/watch-this-helicopter-saw-blaze-thr...