Proven effective prior to launch, too.
Posted on 10/04/2014 3:45:11 PM PDT by right-wing agnostic
Scarcely a week goes by without a story in the news about drones, whether it is a Senator finding a drone peering in her window, or a small town in Colorado discussing whether to offer drone-hunting licenses (in the end they voted not to). The fear that a drone may be watching you is far from unreasonable. Today’s news, for example, is that up to 20 percent of the Border Patrol predator-drone flight hours take place in the US; meanwhile, in Miami where we both live, the police department has a fleet of drones out on patrol.
This week’s arrest of a man who took a shotgun to an airborne drone is only one of the most recent warnings that we need better legal rules — and better social norms — about drone overflights, and that we need them now both to prevent harm to people and to prevent wrongful shootdowns. Similar, if less dramatic, questions apply to dangers posed by other robots, such as driverless cars. As it happens, we have some suggestions for rules that would apply to all robots, whether autonomous or remote controlled, that pose any potential threat to life or limb, to property, or to privacy.
Our recent paper Self-Defense Against Robots, which we presented at the WeRobot 2014 Conference held at the University of Miami School of Law focuses more on civil remedies such as tort law than on criminal law issues. (The New Jersey case made the news because the shooter was charged with criminal mischief and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.)
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A Wearable Camera That Would Turn Into a Drone and Fly Off Your Wrist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3208222/posts
Drones, auto pilot airplanes, self driving care:
What difference does it make by now?
Even our White House is on autopilot.
Video at link:
Meet Johnny Dronehunter, Shotgun-Toting Defender of American Privacy
By A.J. McCarthy
Importantly, what wasn’t said is that there is now a growing anti-drone technology, that while illegal, may be highly profitable. The means to take down drones are limited only by imagination. And as long as they cannot be directly connected to the target of the drone, that target cannot be punished for it.
For example, two weather balloons could be tethered together by fishing line, from which descends many strands of fishing line. Fishing line and propellers do not get along. Simplicity itself.
Laser guided kamakazi attack drone!
Proven effective prior to launch, too.
That is one possibility. The US military is already using the Switchblade drone against enemy ground targets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dgvBb5ke-E
A small kamikaze drone would likely be infrared guided by the hot exhaust of a larger drone and fly into its engine.
If the drone is flying higher up, the attack drone could be sent up on a balloon, or even as part of a model rocket.
A small drone could have a microwave transmitter to try and fry the other drone’s electronics. But explosives are the most cost effective. So rig the attack drone with some short tubes with electrically fired shotgun shells in them.
Just a question,
Why is it legal for cops to use drones tocheck us out but not for us to use them to check on cops?
“Why is it legal for cops to use drones tocheck us out but not for us to use them to check on cops?”
Why not? You can operate an aircraft in almost any airspace in the United States and use that aircraft for surveillance.
There are some areas of restricted airspace, such as Area 51, the White House, etc.
I understand what you say, but.
I guarantee you if you fly one keeping tabs on cops they’ll shut you down then there is the ban on national parks etc
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