Why does the public hate drones so much ??? (game, difference, buying)
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I won't even read the response to this thread but will just answer the question:
Invasion of Privacy.
If people who had drones respected others privacy, and used them for fun to video trips or their house or something else, then fine. But when it gets into restricted air space, or is used to video others unknowingly, it's just wrong.
A tool in the hand of an idiot destroys that tool for those of us who would use it the "proper" way. I would like a drone, but now with its already tainted image, I won't get one.
i found your stupid drone.
march 29. saturday night. 10pm.
your quadcopter must have crashed. i found it squirming around in the middle of Fulton Street. felt like i was picking up a wounded animal with it buzzin' all around, camera lookin' at me with its one eye, not sure if it was dead or alive.
it was weird...
i didn't want the damn thing flying around the apartment, bumping into me or creeping out my girlfriend [too late!] and her stoney [and slightly paranoid] roommates, so i pulled the battery, cut the power and turned off the wireless.
if you want it back and/or you dont want me to see what's on the SD card, email me with the specifics or i'm gonna turn around and sell it on ebay to another one of you chumps.
Here in Florida the statutes are written in such a way that one could make an argument (and win according to my attorney buddy) that a drone equipped with a camera filming you in your backyard (where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy) where you are sunbathing topless (or fully nude) would be a violation of Florida's Video Voyeurism Statute 810.145. Performing this act is a Third degree Felony in Florida. i.e. if your neighbor is flying a droned camera over your backyard in Fl, simply get naked then call the cops.
I fly radio-controlled helicopters on a regular basis. Lately, I've been inundated by morons who have no idea what they're talking about. I have to deal with idiots telling me that my "drones" are illegal and how they would "shoot that thang down" if it came near their property. First of all, my "drones" don't have f***ing cameras on them, second of all, it's not illegal to fly "near their property." Shoot down one of my R/C helicopters and you'll be paying a pretty penny.
I'm perplexed why the general public has such a disdain for flying drones?
I'm not talking about the killer drones that the U.S. military uses for taking out terrorists --- I mean those little plastic toys that are buzzing around ("quadcopters"). I would guess over 90% of the public hate these things and think they are only used for nefarious purposes like snapping photos of you tanning naked in your backyard or dropping bombs on crowds of people?
To me, these things will transform our society in a mostly good way just like the Internet did. I think within 10 years, many companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart will be using them to quickly deliver small items to your house in a quick and cheap manner.
I keep thinking about the example of Walgreen's shipping out some important heart medication to a homebound elderly person who doesnt drive and needs that medicine delivered quickly. What better way than to have a small drone air-drop it to the elderly patient within 20 minutes after the doctor calls in the prescription? I realize Walgreen's probably has a delivery service but that involves a human driving a car that spews lots of CO2 into the atmosphere and the service usually ends by 5pm during the week. An electric drone would be available to deliver drugs 24 hrs. a day, 7 days a week!
What about those times when it's late at night and you need something urgent like a pack of condoms or a small container of milk for the kiddies' breakfast? Why bother to warm up the car on a cold winter night and drive to Wal-Mart and waste gasoline when it could be so much easier to log onto the website and have the items delivered to you by a drone that is operating 24 hrs. a day without human intervention?
Sorry, but I don't live in a paranoid fear-mongering world like many people do --- I can see enormous benefits of drones and I heartily welcome their increasing usage in our modern society!
I think they are very cool but also a bit unsettling. The way they move is unnatural and akin to stuff we're used to seeing only in sci-fi flicks.
Me thinks that's the deep psychological reason behind drone hate... otherwise they are just mobile cameras, and that's not too weird, all things considered.
not so much the drones but what they will be used for.
any government will use them for not so good reasons. (spying on just anyone. corps will spy on everyone).
and anything that fly's will fall down at the worst possible time and place.
law of averages.
one drone a year maybe a million years before a fail.
Loss of privacy when they are used domestically. Watched a NOVA special on PBS recently and saw where of late a new electronics/optics system for drones allows one to monitor a 15 square mile city and break down each pixel of the city to a point where you can see waving their arms. And store all of the data for further retrieval. That much resolution. And that was from something like 17,000 feet where the drone would be invisible to the naked eye from the ground. And that was technology that we know of. As the narrator said: "There will come a time in our near future when virtually all we do will be monitored". Not saying good or bad, just matter-of-fact. They do this now with electronic monitoring of phone calls, e-mails, etc. And in the name of countering terrorism. People say "Well if you don't have anything to hide...." Not the point. If it is not against the law, then why keep it and not destroy it? Who is to say that at some point in the future, what is now legal, will become illegal? Can anyone here keep up with all of the myriad of laws/policies the federal and state governments are passing day-to-day, week-to-week<
People don't like them due to privacy issues. I wouldn't want someone flying over my house taking video of me.
If you want ot make a Million bucks come up with something that will take down the drones or at least scramble the video. Some people have taken to shooting at them but that is not a good idea.
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