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The FAA has been keeping the US in the dark ages of drone ops for years now. The economic losses caused by our delayed entry into the market are incalculable.
by closetohome 7y ago
The FAA has been keeping the US in the dark ages of drone ops for years now. The economic losses caused by our delayed entry into the market are incalculable.
- loco5niner 7y agoAssuming the FAA had valid safety reasons to do so, those economic losses were worth it.
- closeparen 7y agoThere would be valid safety reasons to prohibit all flight.
- bsder 7y agoUnfortunately, we have actual cases of dipshits flying drones in active fire suppression areas. The FAA has valid concerns and cannot simply trust the end users to do the right thing.
- rmason 7y agoIf a companies business license is dependent upon following FAA rules you're a lot less likely to have a problem than say a teenage hobbyist.
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- loco5niner 7y agoAlso valid safety reasons to prohibit walking out your front door.
- jcims 7y agoYou can use that argument to rationalize just about any degree of regulation. Governments are in the business of balancing human death and suffering against the economic, technological and political benefits of policies, and the needle is almost never found pinned to one side. Personally I think the FAA is doing OK here. Drones need to scale up in capacity/reliability/safety and right now it's incredibly expensive to do that for a specific application because the industry is building for RC and hobby use. It's going to have to happen iteratively, but it does need to progress some for it to work at all.
- rmason 7y agoI know a startup that asked the FAA to create an experimental zone in several rural townships and it was rejected. UPS got the FAA to write a set of rules that will allow the ag drones to fly and as the article notes that is kind of a big deal.