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One of the things I find incredibly annoying is that delivery drivers will drive by my home even when they're not delivering to me. Did they even ask for my consent? Once they have self-driving cargo vans, I'm just going to shoot out their tires so they can't spy on me. Or that's what I would sound like if I was a looneybin.
My concern is less the occasional drone and more when Google decides that all their delivery drones - already carrying cameras/radar/lidar for navigational purposes - can be used to update google maps in near realtime. The sheer Big Brother possibilities are insane. The future: "saferoom is where the pants aren't"
I’ll never understand people who oppose new technology because it could hypothetically be used a negative way. These people just seem to have a chronically cynical outlook on everything. The logical thing to do is to regulate things when they become a problem, not speculatively.
Discuss it with your city/county council. If it annoys enough people, you might introduce regulations, aka making agreement with the drone operators.
This article is from Ireland, but at least here in the US local governments cannot create laws governing anything that is airborne.
Can you imagine if concert venues could get around noise ordinances by lifting the speakers with drones? Absurd.
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Unfortunately it runs afoul of the same laws against training apes to steal[1] or pickpocket[2]. 1. Dunston Checks In (1996) 2. Monkey Trouble (1994)
I somehow doubt the crows will cough up the perps name when interrogated....
I live in a pretty quiet neighborhood, and I’m not thrilled about the idea of drones flying over my backyard all the time. There’s something really jarring about sitting outside and suddenly hearing that loud buzzing overhead. I don’t think anyone’s really asked regular people how they feel about this kind of thing.
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If you followed the other comments on this post, you will probably realize, that this is about the airspace above ones house. So a neighbor climbing onto my roof is a completely different matter.
what if neighbour is hovering 1 foot above the roof in a small homemade hot air balloon? :)
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That would be very relevant, were the article not about Ireland.
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Maybe read the article, as it discusses the ambiguity in Irish law about airspace. The word "reasonable" occurs.
In practice, that's what I do when I fly my drones in my Canadian neighbourhood. Sure, the airspace above someone's property isn't theirs, but that doesn't mean I want to annoy my neighbours. So I tend to fly high enough that they don't even see or hear my drones at all. I try and be "reasonable" like my Irish cousins.
Here's my latest drone photo. I doubt any of my neighbours saw or heard this flight:
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Are rocks still kosher?
if a drone is close enough to be hit with a rock, its operating ilegally.
I live in the path of the drones mentioned in the article and it's an incredibly frustrating experience to be outside and have them fly over the property. they are noisy, intrusive, and increasingly more frequent ( maybe a pass nearby every half hour on a busy day ) Living in an urban environment always will entail some unwanted sounds, dogs barking, passing cars, the occasional helicopter or whatever, but to have a…
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Please edit out ideological and inflammatory swipes like this.