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Rather than the boring af repetitive talk about the fake Gatwick Drone. Or all the fake sightings. Or the one sub par test of a drone hitting a plane in a faci

Rather than the boring af repetitive talk about the fake Gatwick Drone. Or all the fake sightings. Or the one sub par test of a drone hitting a plane in a facility. How about we talk about how we let the government take over so much of our world. We are moving to 3D, f the government. How do they own it all? How can we not even use toys in 99% of our world. It's a disgrace. The data we are collecting from drones around the world is amazing. They lets us crawl back some of what governments have taken away. Good on people filming fires, they are possibly contributing more than these grounded helicopters. Helicopters need to learn how to share the space.

acdha 7y ago
Do you really think that there’s a significant public value for someone to be able to “use toys” in the same place where people are actively fighting a raging fire near an inhabited area? I think there’s a lot of value to things which can be done with drones but that’s about the worst area to make this argument: it’s limited in both space and time, and there’s a direct risk to human lives.
- sneak 7y ago
  > Do you really think that there’s a significant public value for someone to be able to “use toys” in the same place where people are actively fighting a raging fire near an inhabited area? The kind of reactionary legislation that articles like this generate support for will not simply ban drones over fires. The collateral damage to our present freedoms to collect data and imagery will be significant.
  - macintux 7y ago
    Then don’t fly drones where the authorities are desperately trying to put out a fire, thus there would be no backlash.
    - aaron695 7y ago
      I find it very unlikely using helicopters is the best solution for fires. Prevention is one, here drones can help publicise the damage and show scientifically what's happening and help change policy. I also think if a person is flying a drone is so close, a fire engine also possible, but I suspect there are not enough since they are boring and don't get enough funding. And YES heaps of people fly drones and dont get in the way. The nature of this is occasionally sometimes they will. I see no reason we can't use tech today to harden helicopters rather than a stick a head in sand solution of just blaming drones. Drones are here to stay, we can deal with the possibility of a flock of birds, we can deal with a drone 'sighting'
    - sneak 7y ago
      I don’t, yet I will still have my freedoms restricted by the reactionary and unnecessary legislation passed because of fearmongering articles like this. Your words seem to imply that people who have their freedoms taken away in bulk are somehow themselves to blame, when that is rarely the case.

acdha 7y ago

Do you really think that there’s a significant public value for someone to be able to “use toys” in the same place where people are actively fighting a raging fire near an inhabited area? I think there’s a lot of value to things which can be done with drones but that’s about the worst area to make this argument: it’s limited in both space and time, and there’s a direct risk to human lives.

sneak 7y ago
> Do you really think that there’s a significant public value for someone to be able to “use toys” in the same place where people are actively fighting a raging fire near an inhabited area? The kind of reactionary legislation that articles like this generate support for will not simply ban drones over fires. The collateral damage to our present freedoms to collect data and imagery will be significant.
- macintux 7y ago
  Then don’t fly drones where the authorities are desperately trying to put out a fire, thus there would be no backlash.
  - aaron695 7y ago
    I find it very unlikely using helicopters is the best solution for fires. Prevention is one, here drones can help publicise the damage and show scientifically what's happening and help change policy. I also think if a person is flying a drone is so close, a fire engine also possible, but I suspect there are not enough since they are boring and don't get enough funding. And YES heaps of people fly drones and dont get in the way. The nature of this is occasionally sometimes they will. I see no reason we can't use tech today to harden helicopters rather than a stick a head in sand solution of just blaming drones. Drones are here to stay, we can deal with the possibility of a flock of birds, we can deal with a drone 'sighting'
  - sneak 7y ago
    I don’t, yet I will still have my freedoms restricted by the reactionary and unnecessary legislation passed because of fearmongering articles like this. Your words seem to imply that people who have their freedoms taken away in bulk are somehow themselves to blame, when that is rarely the case.