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Am sure when the first cars hit the road, similar news made it to the newspaper front pages then.
And they were right beyond their darkest dreams. Thirty-two thousand road deaths in the US in 2013.
I used to fly remote control aeroplanes as a hobby. There's a really strong culture of having a licence and insurance before you're allowed to fly solo. You have to pass a test before you can get insurance, and there are more tests if you want to fly around spectators (stunt shows, etc). This seems to be completely missing in the drone community. I quizzed some drone enthusiasts about it and they responded with "meh"…
It's somewhere between apathy and "try to catch/stop me".
The required registration now is almost hilarious, it's just going to be a way to give a huge fine after an incident for unregistered drones, no-one is going to register unless all the stores get together and do it for you when you buy it automatically (and then people will just buy direct from China).
...and won that one, big time: nowadays, just suggest that the road is not exclusively owned by cars, and watch the foaming-at-the-mouth flamewar.
Am sure when the first cars hit the road, similar news made it to the newspaper front pages then.
> Am sure when the first cars hit the road, similar news made it to the newspaper front pages then. And they were right beyond their darkest dreams. Thirty-two thousand road deaths in the US in 2013.
http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/11/car-emissions-vs-car-...
It's not just any skiier it's the guy winning the world cup total the last years! Wish my favorite sport was featured on HN in some better light, heh. From my experience in flying drones in wintery mountains, it could be a battery failure. Cold batteries suddenly drops in voltage, too fast for the failsafe mechanisms to trigger. Can explain why it drops like a brick and not slowly descends.
That is why true "failsafe" mechanisms tend to be mechanical more than electrical: less prone to failure.
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But people have been flying RC forever. It's not like it's a new hobby. AMA has been around for 80 years. It's just a fad right now. Everyone couldn't fly 4 channel airplanes or 6 channel helicopters, but a monkey could fly a quadcopter. The same guy who gets into RC airplanes and helis is not the same person who gets into quadcopters. From what I've seen the quadcopter community does not feel like the regular RC com…
The average IQ of a user is inversely proportional to the popularity of a product. Case in point: laser pointers.
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In the US, maybe, but for sure not in Europe. We don't even have a word for "jaywalking" in Germany.
I was an American expat in England for 2 years and can vouch that culture was much more cycling friendly. However, you still got the occasional "white van man" and this was his favorite argument: http://ipayroadtax.com/
[1] http://road.cc/content/news/156795-road-tax-back-chancellor-...
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Of course it's possible. We reverted millennia of pedestrian centered city planning in a century; I'm sure we can figure out how to reverse the damage done to cities over a single century.
Tearing down is a lot easier than building up. We leveled massive neighborhoods and rewrote how transportation infrastructure works in the US due to the car. Not to mention everything is much much more expensive now than it used to be and the political will to fix things isn't their. You've also got decades of voters who think in terms of the automobile. People in their 60's, 70's and 80's remember denser more urban…
Note to self: add a small mechanical trigger for a parachute for cases of emergency. This will trigger if the drone falls at a certain speed.