4 ms·

Plenty of companies hard at work on making anti-drone tech consumer friendly. Rejoice!

• ineedasername 6y ago
  Which will quickly be made illegal if it interferes with major commercial activity
  • leetcrew 6y ago
    I'm not sure what "anti-drone tech" could mean other than RF jamming, which is already very illegal.
    • reaperducer 6y ago
      Birdshot?
      • jakear 6y ago
        I’d pay good money for a shotgun-like device that had power enough to take down the drones foreigners like to fly meters from my face videotaping me as I walk down the beach, but not powerful enough to be dangerous to use in such contexts.
        • leetcrew 6y ago
          hard to see how this could be legal. you don't get to destroy other people's stuff just because they are annoying you with it. even if what they are doing is not quite legal, you would probably end up on the wrong side of the law yourself.
          • itisit 6y ago
            > you don't get to destroy other people's stuff just because they are annoying you with it. https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/news/a17969/man-who-shot-down-drone-cleared-of-all-charges/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/drones/news/a17969/m...
            • leetcrew 6y ago
              right, but that was on the dude's property, not a public beach. also it was in kentucky.
              • reaperducer 6y ago
                Even on a public beach, it could be harassment. IANAL, but it might even qualify as assault.
          • jessaustin 6y ago
            If the "foreigners" are visitors to USA, they would face real difficulty getting the law interested in this sort of case. Perhaps other nations are more welcoming to obnoxious tech dudes?
        • triceratops 6y ago
          > drones foreigners like to fly meters from my face videotaping me Please explain. I'm genuinely curious.
          • reaperducer 6y ago
            Not the OP, but I've seen this happen in certain state and national parks. I started chucking rocks at a "drone" flown by a tourist that got in my face at a state park in Arizona once. The "pilot" started shouting at me in German. He was very surprised to learn that my childhood taught me how to shout back at people in German.
          • randycupertino 6y ago
            I was doing yoga in a sports bra and short shorts on my back deck that faces a canyon and had a drone with lights and cameras fly down to my house directly above the deck railing within a few meters of me. It was completely obnoxious and completely startled me. I thought it was a neighbor playing with an RC car out in the street at first until I saw the lights in the sky.
            • thallium205 6y ago
              When you spoke to the manager what did he say?
          • jakear 6y ago
            Not sure what there is to explain. I regularly walk my dog along a ~1 mile stretch of secluded but public beach, and a handful of times groups of foreigners have had their drones follow me obnoxiously closely for prolonged periods, I assume recording me. The camera stays pointed at me, though I very clearly shoo it away with my hands, avert my gaze, and block my face with my hair.
        • Judgmentality 6y ago
          Obviously not a shotgun - but if you're serious about wanting to safely disable drones you can buy net guns that actually work. https://netgun.com/ https://netgun.com/
      • kirykl 6y ago
        A strong laser with automated tracker might be enough to melt something on it
    • jakear 6y ago
      High velocity low mass shot pellets propelled in the drone’s general direction via pyrotechnics or similar?