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The same problems apply to cars and airplanes and imagine the world if those were banned early on.

bsder 9y ago
Airplanes are not a great example. Airplanes were very much a hazard until the FAA finally got serious ( PSA 182 is cited as a turning point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Flight_182 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Flight_182) Cars, in fact, exhibited almost exactly the same kinds of problems we see in drones right now: http://amhistory.si.edu/onthemove/themes/story_86_1.html http://amhistory.si.edu/onthemove/themes/story_86_1.html In fact, cars caused far MORE fatalities and came under scrutiny very quickly. The idea that past technologies somehow got adopted in an "unfettered, unregulated field" is bogus revisionism.
- Houshalter 9y ago
  I'm not sure what your point is. My whole point is that cars and airplanes were incredibly dangerous and unregulated when they first were introduced. Thank god they weren't banned or sued out of existence as a knee jerk reaction. If cars or planes were invented today I have no doubt they would be unable to take off. I doubt anyone would even invest in such technology. We now laugh at stories of cities that set car speed limits at 5 miles per hour and mandated an escort. But we are doing far sillier things today with every new technology.
  - ghaff 9y ago
    I don't think anyone is proposing banning them. Among other things, many people are skeptical that they should be allowed to fly willy-nilly over everyone's private property. Which seems a reasonable question. After all, you can't typically drive and often even walk on someone else's property. I do think there are special circumstances where drone delivery of medicine and other urgently needed items may very well make sense. One hour Amazon delivery of a USB cable and a Red Bull? Probably not.
    - seanp2k2 9y ago
      Ok, so you own a drone and live in an apartment. You now can't fly it anywhere. That's in effect the same as a ban. There is literally 1 RC airfield within an hour drive of San Jose last time I looked into it. Most drone owners would likely not buy them if there was an actually-enforced law like that.
walshemj 9y ago
Or Dogs all that barking and pooping and if you unlucky attacking people.
- seanp2k2 9y ago
  Or babies, who grow up to be dog-owning drone pilots.

Airplanes are not a great example. Airplanes were very much a hazard until the FAA finally got serious ( PSA 182 is cited as a turning point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Flight_182 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSA_Flight_182) Cars, in fact, exhibited almost exactly the same kinds of problems we see in drones right now: http://amhistory.si.edu/onthemove/themes/story_86_1.html http://amhistory.si.edu/onthemove/themes/story_86_1.html In fact, cars caused far MORE fatalities and came under scrutiny very quickly. The idea that past technologies somehow got adopted in an "unfettered, unregulated field" is bogus revisionism.

Houshalter 9y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. My whole point is that cars and airplanes were incredibly dangerous and unregulated when they first were introduced. Thank god they weren't banned or sued out of existence as a knee jerk reaction. If cars or planes were invented today I have no doubt they would be unable to take off. I doubt anyone would even invest in such technology. We now laugh at stories of cities that set car speed limits at 5 miles per hour and mandated an escort. But we are doing far sillier things today with every new technology.
- ghaff 9y ago
  I don't think anyone is proposing banning them. Among other things, many people are skeptical that they should be allowed to fly willy-nilly over everyone's private property. Which seems a reasonable question. After all, you can't typically drive and often even walk on someone else's property. I do think there are special circumstances where drone delivery of medicine and other urgently needed items may very well make sense. One hour Amazon delivery of a USB cable and a Red Bull? Probably not.
  - seanp2k2 9y ago
    Ok, so you own a drone and live in an apartment. You now can't fly it anywhere. That's in effect the same as a ban. There is literally 1 RC airfield within an hour drive of San Jose last time I looked into it. Most drone owners would likely not buy them if there was an actually-enforced law like that.

walshemj 9y ago

Or Dogs all that barking and pooping and if you unlucky attacking people.

seanp2k2 9y ago
Or babies, who grow up to be dog-owning drone pilots.