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> Sabotaging infrastructure is as easy as loosening or cutting bolts on a bridge. The issue there is that someone has to walk up a bridge with tools and start
by rdtsc 8y ago
> Sabotaging infrastructure is as easy as loosening or cutting bolts on a bridge.
The issue there is that someone has to walk up a bridge with tools and start loosening bolts. Drones are somewhat remote, in that they could hide in the bushes some distance away. And most of all, I can see drone operators thinking "it's fun" as they are not damaging or deliberately flying into planes. It's wrong of course, but in their minds they don't see it equivalent to cutting bolts on a bridge.
- beezischillin 8y agoThankfully a lot of more modern drones have no-fly maps implemented so you're forced to download it and you can't mess around there. But for years it's been pilot etiquette not to do dumb things to mess it up for everyone else, I guess that's slowly ending, unfortunately. I hope most countries will still try and be sensible about their drone laws. Mine isn't: you're required to register your drone and tell them a month ahead (!!!) where you're going to fly, even if it's in the dead middle of nowhere, which is why people ignore all of it. The other thing is that drones are exceedingly hard to regulate because the barrier of entry to just building your own is becoming lower and lower. Anyhow, enough of my rambling. It's really sad to see things take such a negative turn for everyone involved (both drone pilots and regular people).