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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 thallium205 »

NovemberWhiskey wrote: post #10
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…

You may feel it's arbitrary, but it's consistent with other FAA certificates: i.e. you need a commercial pilot certificate to be paid to fly.

What if you keep it demonetized and only youtube is making money off it?

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

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Post by thallium205 »

randycupertino wrote: post #171
triceratops wrote: post #100

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> drones foreigners like to fly meters from my face videotaping me Please explain. I'm genuinely curious.

I was doing yoga in a sports bra and short shorts on my back deck that faces a canyon and had a drone with lights and cameras fly down to my house directly above the deck railing within a few meters of me. It was completely obnoxious and completely startled me. I thought it was a neighbor playing with an RC car out in the street at first until I saw the lights in the sky.

When you spoke to the manager what did he say?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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/

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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 14 »

monkeybutton wrote: post #164
14 wrote: post #90

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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?

That is basically the argument because you could be checking out an abandoned house looking into the windows. But if someone stepped outside you would now be aware the flight situation has changed and now being within 30m of someone you need to leave the area. I can tell you this, any good lawyer would currently squash a case of a drone in a window without much fight with the current laws but it is obvious with the language of the RCMP and how they are viewing it those days may be limited because they are trying to define new definitions of what breaks ones expectation of privacy. I don't have any drones but I honestly don't think it would be worth your time flying outside someone's window to test this as you are likely to get arrested and even if you beat the charge you would likely spend thousands fighting it.

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

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Post by fakedang »

raisedbyninjas wrote: post #220
datalus wrote: post #214

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The free market didn't deliver seat belts. Regulation had to step in and Ralph Nader lobbied the US govt to get it passed.

Volvo sold the three point seatbelt for nine years before the US government required it.

Volvo is European too.

The part we should be worried about is that it took 9 years for the govt to require it. 50 years from now, we'll be talking about how stupid it was that drones didn't have safety features.

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Post by ohazi »

leetcrew wrote: post #226
schoen wrote: post #216

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Shouldn't the resistor having to end up dissipating exactly as much heat as the friction brakes do, by conservation of energy? Is there a reason that it's inherently mechanically harder for the resistor to dissipate that heat?

not really, but you have to have the friction brakes anyway, so why add more parts?

Disks and pads wear out. I haven't done the math, but I assume you could put in a big (wine bottle sized?) power resistor that can take the thermal cycling more or less indefinitely.

You'd have to cool it, as other commenters have pointed out (you're putting a car's worth of kinetic energy into the thing, after all). I'm not suggesting that it's a good idea, just possible.

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

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Post by JohnJamesRambo »

bananabreakfast wrote: post #219
xvector wrote: post #189

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This was the dumbest thing I experienced with my Model 3. I was expecting my regen brakes to work after I pulled out and I had to brake super hard after. Why can’t Tesla just give us an option to keep it consistent? I guess adding video games is more important.

Because that's not how batteries work. Regen works because the batteries are being charged by the induction of the motors taking energy from the moving car. If the batteries are full they cannot take any more change and hence cannot draw power from the motion of the car. What do you expect them to do? Dump the current on a giant resistor and hope it doesn't melt?

Can anyone do the math and tell me how big that resistor would need to be? I’ve always wondered how many watts are being dissipated by my brake pads and rotors when I stop.

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

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Post by tomc1985 »

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…

> 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).

How is this any different than an aircraft transponder or IFF device?

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

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Post by bobthepanda »

raisedbyninjas wrote: post #220
datalus wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The free market didn't deliver seat belts. Regulation had to step in and Ralph Nader lobbied the US govt to get it passed.

Volvo sold the three point seatbelt for nine years before the US government required it.

Most automakers had them, they were just optional and so people didn't spend extra money on them and kept getting flung out of their cars.

Volvo had them standard, but Volvo has also never been above 1% market share in the US [1]. If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

[1] https://knoema.com/infographics/floslle/top-vehicle-manufact...

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

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Post by vagrantJin »

bananabreakfast wrote: post #219
xvector wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was the dumbest thing I experienced with my Model 3. I was expecting my regen brakes to work after I pulled out and I had to brake super hard after. Why can’t Tesla just give us an option to keep it consistent? I guess adding video games is more important.

Because that's not how batteries work. Regen works because the batteries are being charged by the induction of the motors taking energy from the moving car. If the batteries are full they cannot take any more change and hence cannot draw power from the motion of the car. What do you expect them to do? Dump the current on a giant resistor and hope it doesn't melt?

> What do you expect them to do? Dump the current on a giant resistor and hope it doesn't melt?

You know...they could use it to boil water for a built in coffee/green tea maker.

Just a thought...

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