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Using drones and robots and AI to enforce property rights could be the defining conflict of the next decade, imo. I've recently acquired a drone for security a
by motohagiography 3y ago
Using drones and robots and AI to enforce property rights could be the defining conflict of the next decade, imo.
I've recently acquired a drone for security at the rural property I work/live at. A few evenings a week post-covid we get car loads of men from regional suburbs who use the countryside roads as their hangouts, drag strips, and subwoofer test ranges, or couples having sex in their cars. When a group of 4-6 men are hanging out at the edge of your property in front of your house at night with no police presence for about 20 miles, using a drone to make it clear they aren't alone or invisible usually gets them to go somewhere else and discourages them from coming back. Aftermarket LED/strobe lights enable later flights as well.
It's pretty dystopian, but really, the flights and video collect data for making a policy case for doing something about the issue in the township, and if the lurkers don't respect privacy and rural norms and police resources are too thin, this is a lot safer and less time consuming than rolling up on a group of strange men at night to tell them that treating our neighbourhoods as lawless is abusive and brings danger into the area.
This is to say the tension in that dynamic is only going to get more intense as the effect of policies of rapid change. The use case for drones and robots of various kinds will be to replace and intermediate what was previously an equillibrium of cultural norms. Today, GPT enabled android human-scarecrows are just a product launch away, where everyone gets their own mall cop. When there was mutual respect and understanding, we didn't need fences and barriers, but without that, technology like this rapidly becomes economical. Very strange times indeed.
- cma 3y agoIt may be better to just adopt right to roam.
- K0balt 3y agoNobody walks in the USA, and vehicles often do significant damage to property. Often, the point of driving the vehicle is effectively to do damage, recreational slides, drifts, spinning out, etc are all normal behaviors for off readers and the environmental damage done is often extreme and long lasting, while damage to animals, crops /trees, property, and roadways can often run into the tens of thousands of dollars for a group of “off road enthusiasts” frolicking for 20 minutes. For the most part (with exceptions of course) the people (in the USA) that you end up dealing with that go on private property thinking they are “in the middle of nowhere” are doing so with no intention of being in any way responsible for their actions. The intention is often rather to “cut loose” aka engage in behaviors that would be considered too destructive, annoying, or illegal to do in a place where you might be held accountable for the consequences of your decisions. IMHO this is an unhealthy memetic crystal common in US culture especially (but hardly exclusively) — the idea of costless externalization of costs and consequences. It goes hand in hand with the tacit approval of theft when the amount involved is large enough. “Oceans Eleven” wouldn’t be nearly as cool if they were skillfully stealing televisions from suburban homes lol.
- iudqnolq 3y agoNobody* roams in Scotland. *Well of course people do, just as people hike in the USA. But in both cases it's something the vast majority of people don't do and that's totally fine.
- darknavi 3y ago> A few evenings a week post-covid we get ... couples having sex in their cars. I don't live rurally but I would guess this isn't a very new concept. "Makeout point" has been around for a while. (not that it makes it any less annoying)
- motohagiography 3y agoGiven the invention and cheap availability of Airbnbs, these people who have sex in their cars or in public today are just fetishists. They've got alternatives that include private outdoor yards, but they're expressing a clear preference for public sex and appear to get off on abusing the attention and privacy of others. It's not just the outdoors, their kink requires a third party to be disgusted by them. Maybe I should just lease a failing golf course in the area and charge nighttime admission as a makeout park.
- fatfingerd 3y agoRenting an AirBnb implies calculated intention, I would bet that a lot of the bouncing cars I've walked past in my years would be replaced by only one drunk with a single red cheek exiting the bar.
- snypher 3y agoI think this comment is pretty far off target. There is next to no available Airbnb in my area, and there's no way a spontaneous coupling would plan so far ahead. What's next, people renting Airbnb just to smoke some pot in?
- solardev 3y agoI don't get it. What's wrong with pulling over and having sex in a car? If you don't want to watch... don't? What's disgusting about people having sex? Most people and species do that. The privacy aspect is pretty new too. Just weird puritanical stuff that's way more oppressive than teenagers in the woods.
- thegreenswede 3y agoThis is really out of touch. 99% of teens doing this don't have the disposable income to rent an Airbnb to have sex. And also bc each partner probably lives with their parents still (which btw is now common up to age 30). So in the car at night is by far the simplest solution.
- 112233 3y ago> hanging out at the edge of your property Do you mean inside your property at its' edge?