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72-year-old Florida man arrested after admitting he shot a Walmart delivery drone
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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Good aim! The privacy concern with these things is real. The full opportunity is now there to have these fly up to your window and look into your house. Hard pass on drone deliveries.
Drones can also carry weapons, biohazards, waste, endless possibilities of exploitation, imho.
An RC plane could do the same. How often in history did someone drop a bio weapon with an RC plane?
How many times have multiple billion-dollar businesses had a fleet of RC planes at their disposal?
We're all in uncharted waters here. And if the people responsible for ensuring an environmental disaster doesn't strike after a train derails can't be trusted to protect the environment or accurately disclose shipments, I don't have faith the #1 food stamps employer is going to be much more scrupulous with their transportation safety.
You ever try to fly an RC plane?
Let alone one with enough payload to do anything?
How about an RC helicopter, which is a better comparison. They're a real bitch, way harder than RC planes.
The RC world has been somewhat exclusive for a long time - these things weren't cheap, and not easy to fly.
Any idiot today can fly a drone and hover where they want - just direct it where you want to go, with a camera on board. Just look at the number of drones in the last 10 years - I frequently hear them around the city, while I've never seen an RC plane flying around the city.
There's plenty of great applications, but it needs to be heavily regulated to not be a privacy nightmare.
Maybe also give certified drones a specific bright colour that privately owned ones can't have so you know it's not some creep or creepy advertising company operating it.
Because it's much better to deliver like this than have the city clogged up and polluted by cars delivering a tiny bag of food. Even more important, medications that are needed urgently or just for someone that's too sick or elderly or disabled to comfortably pick it up themselves.
How is this different from a delivery person looking in your window when they drop off something to your house? Can a delivery person also just as easily "carry weapons, biohazards, waste"? Why would a drone want to carry those things? Why would Walmart want a drone to carry those things and cause harm, as you seem to be implying here, to their customers? A drone company can be regulated and audited to make sure privacy laws are being followed.
Will an infraction occur with a drone? Probably. And then people will have grounds to sue and laws will be built to protect people and their privacy (I hope!).
Drone delivery is coming - how do you want to see this tech being used responsibly?
And how do I know this drone above my house is legit? Do i get airspace traffic control over my house? If someone is flying a drone near my roof it's going to explode for sure.
You put up a jammer and when a drone lands on your property you where right.
gets shot by the FCC (or equivalent agency elsewhere)
I fly drones for about 12 years. I flying (racing) drones. It's fun and an interesting hobby. But i absolutely hate the thought of these delivery drones. I honestly don't think looking into windows and stuff like that is a concern.
Then you're an idiot. Privacy is the primary concern.
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They physically can, but spying on you via drone in someplace you have a reasonable expectation of privacy (I.e. your house, not the sidewalk or public space) is already illegal.