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If you think cheap drones for consumers won't be abused, note there are many thousands of incidents of people purposely pointing green lasers at aircraft in the
by ck2 13y ago
If you think cheap drones for consumers won't be abused, note there are many thousands of incidents of people purposely pointing green lasers at aircraft in the USA each year.
- Estragon 13y agoWhy is pointing a laser pointer at a plane a big deal?
- krapp 13y agoIt can blind the pilots.
- Estragon 13y agoHuh, I always assumed that was just more security hysteria, but it looks like you are right. http://www.laserpointersafety.com/page52/laser-hazard_diagram/laser-hazard_diagram.html http://www.laserpointersafety.com/page52/laser-hazard_diagra...
- ck2 13y agoThe beams is meters wide at that height. It is a federal crime and hundreds of people are arrested each year and growing but idiots keep doing it - they even light up the police helicopters that come to look for them.
- crbnw00ts 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasers_and_aviation_safety http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasers_and_aviation_safety
- Ensorceled 13y agoApparently it's because a large number of people don't think it's a big deal ...