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It's significantly more work to run around the nest, and it requires more intentionality than piloting a drone and being stupid about it. There's also usually s
by groby_b 5y ago
It's significantly more work to run around the nest, and it requires more intentionality than piloting a drone and being stupid about it. There's also usually signage warning you to not do the running-through-the-nest thing.
For obvious reasons, we can't hang warning signs in the air.
I have my doubts that a license will prevent people from doing stupid things, but that is (at least part of) the reasoning for having a license - so the government can say "told you so".
It's on par with immigration forms asking you if you're planning to be a terrorist. It's a useless question, but it establishes a paper trail that somebody has told you not to do that.
It's like rooted in Lambert v. California, which stated that you can't convict a person of violating a law if there was no probability they could've know the law existed. A question, or a sign, or a license establishes that there is a probability.
- saint_abroad 5y ago> There's also usually signage warning you to not do the running-through-the-nest thing. "No drones, no dogs, and no bikes. Those are the posted rules in the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach." https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/after-thousands-of-tern-eggs-are-abandoned-bolsa-chica-looks-to-educate-on-dangers-of-drone-activity https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/after-thousands-o... Indeed, licences won't stop stupidity but they do help establish penalties.
- sleepybrett 5y agoCurrent law already has penalties.
- _hyn3 5y agoThere's also no question or sign indicating that you have to take a drone license course, effective immediately. How would someone even find out about this new regulation? By hanging out on hacker news waiting for it?