Posted on 02/01/2025 7:19:58 AM PST by RainMan
Thinking about the last 4 months with the drones over NJ, the drone strike of the firefighting plane in LA and now the Philadelphia crash, I am wondering how long until the FAA gets its act together and requires all drones be registered, have a working transponder, and operators be licensed and have liability insurance?
Our sky is becoming too crowded. NJ could have been solved in minutes. Same with the LA collision. I strongly suspect that Philadelphia will also be a midair collision with a drone. Their job is to keep us safe ... it is one of the legitimate uses of government.
Well, whatever caused the Philadelphia crash it was sudden. I didn’t hear any type of distress communication coming from the medical jet.
Better be soon!
Any drone over 4 ounces HAS to be registered NOW.
Why wouldn’t you suspect the Philadelphia jet crash was another collision with a military aircraft? /s
Redundant and we want less government meddling, not more.
Universal background checks. Close the yard sale loop hole....
I strongly suspect that Philadelphia will also be a midair collision with a drone. Their job is to keep us safe ... it is one of the legitimate uses of government.>>. No drone at 1500 feet in the rain and fog. Drones over .55 lbs are already required to be registered.
You are not the only one saying this. The personal drone that took out the scoop plane helping the Palisades fire for days while it had to be repaired. Ya, no more.
They already require it to some extent.
If a drone falls out of the sky and injures me, I’m probably going to sue the drone operator if he was negligent.
I think most drones of any size are registered with the FAA. Somehow, they are tracked in flight.
F@#$ you!
No, the rest of the US will not benefit from this kind of gov’mt intervention. You must work for the commie trash that want to track and then destroy all “non-believers”. Guns are already so controlled and we still have murderers walking the streets — and assassins hired by former FirstLadies.
Go live in England.
These drones are safe for the public to have and enjoy if the society is a moral society... they cannot be allowed for a populace riddled with immoral unrestrained freaks...
Thus, they need to be tightly controlled.
The regulations surrounding drones are and will be modest compared to those undoubtedly in the process of being written for the use of remote avatars.
A simple example of an avatar is a player’s character, representing them in the virtual world of a game... physical avatars move this from the virtual to the real.
Both simple drones and avatars allow you to be present at remote locations and interact anonymously...
Avatars will in coming years become a real thing.
As is always the way, the public is accustomed to this sort of advance by seeding popular entertainment with the ideas.
No need to get dressed and go to work, school, shopping.. whatever.. just send the avatar and you can interact with sight, sound, touch and physical mobility.. pick up objects, converse with people.. the whole spectrum of interaction is possible.
Avatars are especially desired for life-extension research and implementation.
We are indeed entering the Age of Avatars, a drone is a very rudimentary avatar that anyone can experiment with but an avatar tasked to give advanced remote mobility and sense input is the end goal and will be a close approximation of actually being physically present at remote location. It’s easy to imagine the advanced uses for this tech i.e. for a person enduring life extension.. I say enduring since permanently interacting via avatar would be a very difficult adjustment and one I would not care to make. An advanced avatar would be far more complex than what is currently known to the public and would require a worldwide high bandwidth data network that was both terrestrial and space based so the avatar could be freely mobile and the data stream back to the patient would be fast enough to handle the visual, tactile and audio data... low ping times would be a must so the space based portion would of necessity be in very low orbit. It would be desirable for there to be multiple avatars operating at the ready so the data stream can be shifted very quickly if needed. It would be strange to be able to instantly transfer the data stream from one avatar to another i.e. Jump from home base to a location in say London and then jump to say a ship at sea... it would be somewhat magical.
Avatars with selectable autonomy are especially desired for military purposes (Battletars), obviously. You can be present and aware with your senses and mobility at remote locations.. Such a soldier need fear nothing as they remain safe far from the action. You can switch from full real-time control all the way to full autonomy and any point in between. i.e. Have your avatar autonomously walk a perimeter and only alert you if danger of some sort is detected... thus you can run multiple avatars simultaneously. This tech will also be useful for mundane remote tasks like delivery drivers.. one person could control multiple delivery vehicles and avatars and only be alerted if direct interaction with a customer was needed..
It’s next to no effort to do anyway.
Like in the Bruce Willis film Surrogates.
Drones shouldn’t be directly overhead of people anyway.
exactly
Some on here have no desire to see regulation of drones. Thats your opinion. I don’t see drones as equivalent to guns, but rather to planes, and to a degree cars. If everyone could just jump in a plane in their driveway and take off, without proper training, and tools to help them ID other flying objects, we would have 100 deaths a day in every major city. That is not even taking into account bad actors that may have no experience flying a plane yet they steal yours.
Cars are big heavy objects that can cause massive damage and death not only to the occupants, but bystanders. We have to pay for the infrastructure of cars, and they are regulated both on the driver as well as rules of operation, and insurance requirements. This is to help reduce costs to society.
Planes are even more regulated than cars, because the potential to cause harm is even greater. Drones are still an emerging technology, and yet they are proving with greater frequency the risk associated with unfettered use.
Why should a drone not have to carry liability insurance? Why should a drone, which is flying, not have to have a transponder so that other planes can see it on radar? Why is the freedom to invade the airspace more important than the safety of humans in the air, and the carnage that can be wrought on the ground should a drone collide with an airplane? Most drones are so small you could not see them from a 1/4 mile away, day or night. In a plane, that 1/4 mile is covered in 7.5 seconds at 120 mph.
I know drone operators that violate the FAA guidelines regarding elevation, time of day, etc ... and they laugh about it. I found a guy casing homes in my neighborhood by flying drones and looking in bedroom windows. I confronted him and he claimed he had the proper licenses, but what he was doing was in violation of the regulations regarding time of day and altitude. I put an end to his shenanigans and his drone, and kept him there until the cops could arrive. Local cops could not do much about his flying violations, but arrested him for peeping in the windows. (He was from 40 miles away and casing the neighborhood at night with the drone.)
Just like with immigration. Do things legally, and most of us will have no problems with you, but if you are a bad actor, most of us won’t tolerate you. We need to be able to identify and police against bad actors. If you think that makes me a communist ... I don’t care. There are legitimate reasons airspace needs to be protected, and right now drones do not HAVE to abide by the rules and rogue drones can’t be tracked. That has to change.
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