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for what benefit? Drones can be a rather severe nuisance and potential safety hazard when mishandled. As an example I was at the beach in San Francisco once,
by nitrogen 7y ago
for what benefit?
Drones can be a rather severe nuisance and potential safety hazard when mishandled. As an example I was at the beach in San Francisco once, and someone flying an obnoxiously loud FPV drone was repeatedly buzzing everyone's heads, often just feet overhead. It completely ruined the beach for anyone nearby.
Even without such dickish behavior, the sound of a million angry wasps and the possibility of unwanted aerial photography is generally not a welcome addition to most of the places people want to go.
- leetcrew 7y agounless you're a closeted bald man, I'm not sure why aerial photography would be worse than the standard smartphone variety.
- liability 7y agoBecause they're loud as hell, and because many drones lack mechanical redundancy, and because many drone pilots are incompetent. There is also the matter of using drones to circumvent privacy fences, to see through windows not visible from the street, etc.
- prawn 7y agoI imagine there are other laws/restrictions that handle privacy issues. No one I know with a drone has any interest in what is happening inside someone's windows and anyone with that intent is going to ignore regulations anyway.
- sannee 7y agoBecause if the drone pilot loses control and you get hit by a falling drone, you are guaranteed a trip to the hospital [1] [2]? [1] https://robotics.stackexchange.com/a/2577 https://robotics.stackexchange.com/a/2577 [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-34936739 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-34936...