U.S. Will Require Drones to Be Registered

Post by jnbiche » Sun, Oct 18, 2015, 6:19 AM UTC

Spooky23 wrote: post #35

striking wrote: post #11

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But then again, what if people start harvesting people's identities from the drones through the identifier? I think it's a neat idea, but it straddles the 4th Amendment line and could potentially expose your identity to people who don't like drones.

You don't have a right to privacy in public spaces. You can be a weirdo and wear a baclava and only travel by foot or use cash to use public transit, but that behavior in itself de-anonymizes you.

Post by comex » Sun, Oct 18, 2015, 7:34 AM UTC

mikeash wrote: post #98

hueving wrote: post #95

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That's still a simple thing to do with software. The cost of the device shouldn't go up because of that.

That makes no sense, unless your software guys work for free. The cost of software development has to be paid for out of the price of the devices. Aviation is a very limited market, so you don't have a lot of sales to amortize those costs.

Post by Hyperborian » Sun, Oct 18, 2015, 7:57 AM UTC

mikeash wrote: post #99

ctdonath wrote: post #39

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Yes. Make driver education mandatory in public school. A vehicle tag should simply identify the vehicle out of a sea of mixed clones (a la: which blue Mustang?). I actually think the U.S. Founding Fathers would have enumerated a "right to vehicular travel" if they had conceived of license-as-a-privilege restriction on horseless carriages.

Or maybe they would have been scared completely senseless seeing tons of steel being piloted by an idiot with no training at speeds they didn't even know were possible for humans to achieve. Either way, I couldn't care less about what people who died 200+ years ago would have thought about cars, except in an abstract "wouldn't it be cool to show George Washington a modern car and see how he reacts" sort of way.

Post by jkaljundi » Sun, Oct 18, 2015, 8:53 AM UTC

code_sterling wrote: post #102

I'm just curious, have we had an instance where a quadcopter has caused the crash of a commercial aircraft? I've seen birds filleted by tiny copters, and I can't help but feel this is more fear than anything. But I honestly don't know.

Post by aianus » Sun, Oct 18, 2015, 8:58 AM UTC

objclxt wrote: post #21

ctdonath wrote: post #19

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What is registration supposed to do? Broadly, those who will register are responsible enough to not be a problem, those idiots you want to control won't register, and it all just ends up mostly harassing the wrong people. Have and enforce laws against bad behavior, yes, but stop this "guilty until proven innocent" nonsense.

Would you apply the same logic to cars? Because I think all of your points apply equally to cars, but nobody seems to object to the idea of both registering them and requiring a license to drive.