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No it isn't. It's a distracting annoyance at best.
by tommu 13y ago
No it isn't. It's a distracting annoyance at best.
- yeukhon 13y agoThe impact can be catastrophic.
- ynniv 13y agoLike putting your hands over the eyes of someone driving a car.
- cm127 13y agoMore like shining your brights to oncoming traffic: people do this all the time. No one gets 14 years for that.
- ynniv 13y agoThe sentencing is IMO shameful, but shining a laser into someone's eye is not at all like shining a bright light, and temporarily blinding a driver on a well maintained, well marked road is nothing light blinding an operator of a technically sophisticated, carefully balanced machine that operates in six degrees of freedom. Bright lights cause an iris response that protects the eye and is familiar. Lasers cause temporary spot blindness and are bewildering. Helicopters are, to my knowledge, the most difficult vehicle that humans pilot. They are fundamentally unstable and operate in an environment in which seemingly benign towers are fatal and there is no means of escape. Have you heard of an ejection seat on a helicopter? How about an escape hatch? Parachute? Floatation device? Airbags? Most failures in a helicopter can be fatal, even simple mechanical ones. You basically hope that you don't hit the ground too fast.
- dingaling 13y ago> Have you heard of an ejection seat on a helicopter? Well, since you asked... http://www.zvezda-npp.ru/engl/k37.html http://www.zvezda-npp.ru/engl/k37.html "K-37 (РПС К37-800) ejection system for helicopters"
- tptacek 13y agoShining your high beams into oncoming traffic is incredibly dangerous. Don't ever do it.