> bring some discussion to my questions Sure, I'll dive in with a few responses. I'm always tech forward, but never been a "small government" person, so that's

> bring some discussion to my questions Sure, I'll dive in with a few responses. I'm always tech forward, but never been a "small government" person, so that's my stance. I have a small toy quadcopter myself which because of the UK's 250g rule now, I'm annoyed I can't use freely. But just because we use and understand these things doesn't really mean it's accepted. It's not that I'm playing devil's advocate, but on HN we do need to understand we don't live in a tech utopia and need to bring other people along with us, not force new tech on them. > She called the drones creepy. Why are they creepy? I don't find drones creepy myself, but you've got to remember these are still novel to most people. There's accepted rules about most vehicles (manned or unmanned, large and small) that are just not clear to a lot of people when it comes to drones. If you've even seen one flying in person at all. If I'm not aware really of what they are, having an ALTA 8 or something come buzzing through the night sky is going to be creepy - this is a flying machine being operated by a random (potentially unlicensed, if they're flying at night and no one knew who it was) person. I don't see how that's not creepy to most people. > Also you think it is a good use of public resources to drive around and identify people not committing crimes flying drones after the fact. I know it'll get short shrift here, but yeah, I do. In this instance it transpired it wasn't illegal and probably completely fine, but if a number of people report seeing random stuff in the air that spooks them, I'd hope that someone at least goes and tries to find out what it was. Even just to work out and explain to people what it was. Admittedly, it's not the best use of their time, but I don't see it as an invalid use of their time. I don't believe you normalise people to drone usage simply by just flying them around. > Otherwise it sounds like harassment for something they don’t like. Diff'rent strokes, but if it's not bothering me, I'd have though having someone official tell someone complaining that actually it's all fine would be better?