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42% of Americans Oppose Private Drone Ownership; 28% “Not Sure”
- keenar 12y agoI wonder what percentage of the american population really knows what drones are? Reminds me of opinions of cars at the turn of the century (1900): "To the average city dweller, the idea of a city oriented around transportation in cars, and especially privately owned cars carrying one or a few people, would have been incomprehensible. Indeed, the modern idea of a street as an artery, existing primarily to convey vehicles, would have been foreign, says Christopher W. Wells, author of Car Country: An Environmental History" (http://nautil.us/issue/7/waste/did-cars-save-our-cities-from-horses http://nautil.us/issue/7/waste/did-cars-save-our-cities-from...)
- mtmail 12y agoWhat if they asked the same questions but used "electric toy helicopter" instead?
- _rpd 12y agoYes, respondents are almost certainly picturing military strike drones and thinking that people want them for home defense.
- gus_massa 12y agoIt was an online poll, not a real poll with a uniform sample of the population. The "poll" was attached to a new of a moron that crashed a drone into the White House. I'm really surprised that only a 42% of the votes were against private drones. If we can't have a serious poll, I'd like to see the result if they repeat the same "poll" but attached to this news: * "Mom with broken leg found 3 years old kid lost in the forest using drone" * "RC airport cafeterias drop the price to 1/3 using drones to distribute the burritos"
- blackbagboys 12y agoI think you're misreading the article. The poll wasn't "attached" to any news story, a portion of the polling was conducted after the story broke. It is also completely possible to carry out representative polling over the internet; this poll executed by Reuters and a prominent market research firm, it wasn't a sidebar in a CNN Online post.