http://www.latimes.c...0,3374671.story

 

Scary stuff or what??!?

 

I guess if you have nothing to hide there is nothing to worry about :girlwacko:

 

In US airspace

Edited February 16, 201313 yr by Bowling Ball

Marvelous. I'm sure that instead of patrolling our borders and looking for ILLEGALS and SMUGGLERS, the feds will be patrolling a shooting range near you!

I can see their usefulness for search and rescue operations. I've pronounced people dead after search and rescue operations were unable to find them in a timely manner.

That being said: I do not trust our government to keep drone use to such noble causes.

What happens when an annonamus caller reports someone drowning in tha back bay and the drone happens to fly over a "potential" crime scene. Where is the line?

I see this being more bad then good.

There's no possible way this technology will end up being misused

I mean c'mon, it's the government!

at least SOME people see the light

 

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-drone-regulation-20130205,0,7365434.story

Anyone starting to see some scary parallels to science fiction here?

 

http://www.latimes.c...28.photogallery

 

http://en.wikipedia....i/Stealth_(film)

I don't know if anyone mentioned this but many of these drones are very small, as in the size of a shoebox

 

The introduction of drones to US airspace is a major blow to general aviation. Integrating them with GA is going to place heavy demands on private pilots. Most of these drones will fly without direct human control (unlike the UAV flown by military pilots). GA is one of the few remnants of Old America in which you can go up and explore the country without much restriction. I'm suspicious that private pilots will be forced to fly predefined airways even outside of protected airspace in order to accomodate these drones. Another sacrosanct American pasttime will be clobbered out of existance from undue control and regulation.

I Googled "Hunter Killer" with the Terminator movies in mind and this was one of the first articles to pop up. It mentions US Customs are operating them, so they're here. Skynet can't be too far away.