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FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night

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Re: FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night

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Post by lb504 »

stevehawk wrote: post #136
augustt wrote: post #127

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It is already illegal to modify the exhaust to make your vehicle louder. Does't seem to bother cops though.

illegal where? that's not the case anywhere in the US that I'm aware. Most any legislation about exists is limiting modification to environmental parts like catalytic converters.

Here is a handy link of all 50 state's noise regulations for motorcycles. Not every state has one, but many of the larger ones do.

Also, many modified motorcycle exhaust systems will not have a catalytic converter in order to save on weight, this is especially true for sport bikes.

https://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/motorcycle-noise-limits/

Re: FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night

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Post by heavyset_go »

bluescrn wrote: post #115
snuxoll wrote: post #96

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I’ll never understand people who use drones like this, even ignoring the obvious moral and ethical issues of voyeurism they’re loud and obnoxious at the altitudes you would need to go peeping through windows. Every time I try and assuage fears laypeople have about drones and privacy there’s a story or anecdote about some dumbass who does stuff like this anyway...

If you really want to spy on somebody, you don’t use a noisy buzzing drone right outside a window, or hovering in an otherwise empty sky. Even something as crude as a smartphone on a stick could be more covert. Surprised that even tech enthusiasts are often so fearful of drones while not worried about the hundreds of cameras already filming their activities in most public places.

> Surprised that even tech enthusiasts are often so fearful of drones while not worried about the hundreds of cameras already filming their activities in most public places.

The cameras are also in neighborhoods, and if you have neighbors, you probably have several cameras pointing at your property, too.

Ring cameras are everywhere, and since they upload to the cloud, their recordings are one request to Amazon away from being in the government's hands.

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Post by macintux »

grumple wrote: post #145
8note wrote: post #132

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How do you keep the propellers from cutting people up? Does the parachute also tangle up the prop?

They aren’t sharp. Doesn’t seem like a realistic concern tbh.

Being hit in the eye with a flying object spinning at high speeds...how much would it matter how sharp the blades are?

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Post by monkeybutton »

14 wrote: post #90
treeman79 wrote: post #34

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I’ve already had a drone hovering outside Daughters bedroom window. Some people have very different concerns about accountability of drones.

You may be dismayed by the fact that hovering outside someone’s window, at least in Canada, is not a crime unless the individual was naked or engaging in sexual activity. The drones laws were left vague for now and have not caught up to the technology. Here are the rules for Canada: https://tc.canada.ca/en/aviation/drone-safety/flying-your-dr...

I did not know that about Canada's laws, it's definitely disconcerting. Also, how does that work with the 30m distance from bystanders rule, doesn't count because they're not outside?

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Post by recursive »

mike_d wrote: post #103
phkahler wrote: post #55

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Magnetron and a wok for a dish. Kitchen counter measures.

Be careful there tough guy, drones receive the same protections as aircraft. A threat against one is punishable under 18 U.S. Code § 32. "Whoever willfully imparts or conveys any threat [against an aircraft] shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."

I hereby threaten to shoot any drones in my backyard with a garden hose.

Come and get me.

Re: FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night

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Post by stevehawk »

lb504 wrote: post #161
stevehawk wrote: post #136

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illegal where? that's not the case anywhere in the US that I'm aware. Most any legislation about exists is limiting modification to environmental parts like catalytic converters.

Here is a handy link of all 50 state's noise regulations for motorcycles. Not every state has one, but many of the larger ones do. Also, many modified motorcycle exhaust systems will not have a catalytic converter in order to save on weight, this is especially true for sport bikes. https://drivinglaws.aaa.com/tag/motorcycle-noise-limits/

TIL. Thank you.

Re: FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night

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Post by amelius »

rkagerer wrote: post #78

Even 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 int…

How about airbags that are always deployed?

You could even fill them with helium.

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Post by pc86 »

skanga wrote: post #30
pc86 wrote: post #22

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I could see automated license plate reader and facial recognition use cases for sure. Depending on how high the drone flies FR may or may not be feasible.

Do automated license plate reader work via night vision systems? Could they be made to work?

Both of the comments below are correct. In addition, the system I worked on had a strobe that flashed when the camera took a shot. If you zoom in to just the plate it's actually pretty difficult to differentiate a day shot from a night shot.

Re: FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night

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Post by graderjs »

coder543 wrote: post #6

What about changing the rules around commercial use of drone photography / videography? I don't understand why it's fine to use drones to take photos and videos for personal use, and why it's perfectly fine to use the smartphone in your hand for commercially-usable photos and videos, but combine the two and you suddenly have to get an FAA license? That requirement feels very arbitrary, and it feels like a requirement…

Because you can get drone photos from locations you would not have access to unless you were trespassing

I hope buildings in future can implement some sort of electromagnetic area denial system for drones sort of like a robots.txt that drones have to respect (or active denial) and they can't cross some boundary like a airspace around the building so you can't have drones flying up to your windows in your 30th floor apartment and peering in

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