What happens if you shoot down a delivery drone?(techcrunch.com)
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What happens if you shoot down a delivery drone?
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/07/what-happens-if-you-shoot-down-a-delivery-drone/
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Sort related: there was a story here in Southern California from a few years ago about a drone that kept circling a family on the beach - a guy, his wife and two daughters. According to the story, the guy got mad and threw a wet beach towel at the drone, downing it. The guy was later arrested (I don't think he was charged, though), and ended up getting sued in civil court. He lost and had to pay to have the broken drone fixed or replaced.
In Mother Russia you don’t shoot delivery drones, delivery drones shoot you.
Also I have a sneaking suspicion that Florida man will end up pleading out, thus this will never get adjudicated, but I wonder how these charges interact, morally, with Florida’s “stand your ground” doctrine, if he actually believed the drone was both over his property and represented some threat to his perception of safety?
Also I have a sneaking suspicion that Florida man will end up pleading out, thus this will never get adjudicated, but I wonder how these charges interact, morally, with Florida’s “stand your ground” doctrine, if he actually believed the drone was both over his property and represented some threat to his perception of safety?
It will probably be confusing until the delta of monetary damage to drones outpaces the value of campaign contributions. Until then, we have articles to look forward to highlighting how "unreasonable" this behavior is so the window of manufactured consent can move to justify the new reality.
This is not a conspiracy, just the alignment of capital incentives that externalize current notions that could be argued as believed to be within the realm of "the public good."
No one is paid to advocate for common sense, privacy, or the right to shoot the free targets that avail themselves over your property.
See also: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797
https://www.promarket.org/2019/02/13/social-media-clickwraps...
This is not a conspiracy, just the alignment of capital incentives that externalize current notions that could be argued as believed to be within the realm of "the public good."
No one is paid to advocate for common sense, privacy, or the right to shoot the free targets that avail themselves over your property.
See also: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797
https://www.promarket.org/2019/02/13/social-media-clickwraps...
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I'm not pro guns etc but this would spark my ire. I certainly don't want to have drones flying low enough over my property that I could shoot them down.
Another one of those things where the law is behind reality.
Another one of those things where the law is behind reality.
In a vacuum that sentiment makes sense (and I probably agree with it) however in practice it may present some issues.
For example, you probably also don’t want them flying high enough to present a danger to manned aircraft. In a lot of cases the margin is already just a few hundred feet.
Also, while nobody likes drones flying overhead where they could be surveilling people, we also probably don’t want to promote everyone firing into the sky in neighborhoods because those bullets have to come back down somewhere.
I am not at all an expert in the space but I wonder if it makes sense to limit the allowed airspace for delivery drones to something akin to aerial highways.
For example, you probably also don’t want them flying high enough to present a danger to manned aircraft. In a lot of cases the margin is already just a few hundred feet.
Also, while nobody likes drones flying overhead where they could be surveilling people, we also probably don’t want to promote everyone firing into the sky in neighborhoods because those bullets have to come back down somewhere.
I am not at all an expert in the space but I wonder if it makes sense to limit the allowed airspace for delivery drones to something akin to aerial highways.
Free mystery packet?
It’s like people cracking open delivery robots to get a free meal.
The companies haven’t actually found a solution they’re just ignoring the problem and hope it doesn’t become too common
It’s like people cracking open delivery robots to get a free meal.
The companies haven’t actually found a solution they’re just ignoring the problem and hope it doesn’t become too common
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