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Why bother pushing this onto hardware makers? Just authorize authorities to shoot the things down.

14 7y ago
Well I think with ample threats and a few examples made we could seriously help deter some of these events. Would anyone be crazy enough to fly a drone over area 51? I don't think so because they would know as soon as they were caught they would be going to some hole in the earth of a prison. We don't just tend to let fires burn on their own so any active fire should by default be considered actively fought by firefighters therefore keep your drones away. I would just make it illegal to be within "x" distance from any active fire with threat of 5 years in prison, loss of vehicle, ect... or whatever the punishment should be.
cma 7y ago
Shooting drones could cause additional fires.
- pvaldes 7y ago
  > Shooting drones could cause additional fires. But would clear the pass to helicopters that could just send a shoot of water in the same area to grant that this would not occur and then keep doing their job. The result would be still less hectares burnt than if keeping the helicopters parked.
  - cma 7y ago
    Send a shoot of water on a lithium fire?
    - pvaldes 7y ago
      Ok, maybe more than one shoot. So you can identify quickly the point of drone landing. Honest question. What would be worst, a lithium fire surrounded by soaked soil, or a match fire surrounded by dry combustible? Of course if the landing happens in an area burnt yet, would not have anything more to burn except this battery and some plastics.
hrktb 7y ago
won’t most bullets end up landing somewhere/on someone usually unrelated to the scene ? Not commenting on authorities being encouraged to shoot more things. Or was this sarcastic and I just got wooshed ?
wang_li 7y ago
Just require all drones to accept a law enforcement signal which causes the drone to send a picture of the owner/operator to the police, send the gps location of where the drone mot recently took off, and the current location of the operator, a gps track of where the drone has been over the last three years, fly to the law enforcement location and land, then disable itself until cryptographic key only available to law enforcement is provided, and finally send a message back to the controller telling them to report to such and such a police station within twenty-four to receive their citation.
dreamcompiler 7y ago
California law now allows firefighters to do that, but with RF jamming rather than bullets.
- Too 7y ago
  That won't do much if the drone has a pre-programmed GPS route to follow?

14 7y ago

Well I think with ample threats and a few examples made we could seriously help deter some of these events. Would anyone be crazy enough to fly a drone over area 51? I don't think so because they would know as soon as they were caught they would be going to some hole in the earth of a prison. We don't just tend to let fires burn on their own so any active fire should by default be considered actively fought by firefighters therefore keep your drones away. I would just make it illegal to be within "x" distance from any active fire with threat of 5 years in prison, loss of vehicle, ect... or whatever the punishment should be.

cma 7y ago

Shooting drones could cause additional fires.

pvaldes 7y ago
> Shooting drones could cause additional fires. But would clear the pass to helicopters that could just send a shoot of water in the same area to grant that this would not occur and then keep doing their job. The result would be still less hectares burnt than if keeping the helicopters parked.
- cma 7y ago
  Send a shoot of water on a lithium fire?
  - pvaldes 7y ago
    Ok, maybe more than one shoot. So you can identify quickly the point of drone landing. Honest question. What would be worst, a lithium fire surrounded by soaked soil, or a match fire surrounded by dry combustible? Of course if the landing happens in an area burnt yet, would not have anything more to burn except this battery and some plastics.

hrktb 7y ago

won’t most bullets end up landing somewhere/on someone usually unrelated to the scene ? Not commenting on authorities being encouraged to shoot more things. Or was this sarcastic and I just got wooshed ?

wang_li 7y ago

Just require all drones to accept a law enforcement signal which causes the drone to send a picture of the owner/operator to the police, send the gps location of where the drone mot recently took off, and the current location of the operator, a gps track of where the drone has been over the last three years, fly to the law enforcement location and land, then disable itself until cryptographic key only available to law enforcement is provided, and finally send a message back to the controller telling them to report to such and such a police station within twenty-four to receive their citation.

dreamcompiler 7y ago

California law now allows firefighters to do that, but with RF jamming rather than bullets.

Too 7y ago
That won't do much if the drone has a pre-programmed GPS route to follow?