Reply to: How long before these are banned from sale?

[BrilloPad]

I'm waiting for one of those SpiderCams at the football to break free and twat a footballer.

Wayne Rooney, please, Wayne Rooney....

If he was playing for England no-one would notice the difference.

[stek]

I'm waiting for one of those SpiderCams at the football to break free and twat a footballer.

Wayne Rooney, please, Wayne Rooney....

[BrilloPad]

I am surprised terrorists have not used these yet.

[Batcher]

One quite good proposal I saw for 'utility' drones was the use of a leash. I kid you not.

It sounds silly, but a drone that has to be physically connected to the controlling device requires way less regulation and can still perform many of the legitimate roles that private civilian drones are used for.

By keeping the drone small and keeping the leash to a length of less than 200m the restrictions on the users can be significantly reduced (no licence required as it can't go up into airspace etc etc)

That sounds ok until it's used beside overhead power cables

[NickyBoy]

One quite good proposal I saw for 'utility' drones was the use of a leash. I kid you not.

It sounds silly, but a drone that has to be physically connected to the controlling device requires way less regulation and can still perform many of the legitimate roles that private civilian drones are used for.

By keeping the drone small and keeping the leash to a length of less than 200m the restrictions on the users can be significantly reduced (no licence required as it can't go up into airspace etc etc)

[Batcher]

They won't ban them but you will need to have a pilot's license to fly one. You will be allowed to fly up to a certain (smallish, maybe 200 ft) height before having to register a flight plan. There will also be no fly zones near airports and MOD buildings, etc.

If you are caught flying one without a pilot's license, you will find yourself as the new wife of Mr Big in the west wing of HMP Barlinnie

[Paddy]

I don't really believe in false flag terrorism, there are enough terrorists out there to do terror for them but the possibility for carnage is massive.

They can be flown for miles and land on a coordinate, they can carry loads. It is going to happen sooner or later.

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[NickyBoy]

It's difficult to effectively ban something a person with very little training can manufacture in their garage, as cannabis has shown us.

[xoggoth]

it wont be long before people are using them to spy through peoples windows

They do. South Park is never wrong. All my extensive knowledge of human behaviour comes from watching South Park, The Simpsons or Sponge Bob Squarepants.

[NeiloGauss]

I don't really believe in false flag terrorism, there are enough terrorists out there to do terror for them but the possibility for carnage is massive.

They can be flown for miles and land on a coordinate, they can carry loads. It is going to happen sooner or later.

It wouldn't be that hard to build a "missile" from a load of fireworks and aim it towards the Heathrow flight path on a busy day either. I think the aircraft are quite robust, a 747 can get down on one engine.

[NeiloGauss]

I can't see how they can ban them given the availability of the technology to build one at home.

What they must do is put in very very harsh penalties for flying it above a certain height near aircraft.

[tractor]

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I saw one crash in the middle of Wembley Stadium once, almost hit the President it did....

[minestrone]

I don't really believe in false flag terrorism, there are enough terrorists out there to do terror for them but the possibility for carnage is massive.

They can be flown for miles and land on a coordinate, they can carry loads. It is going to happen sooner or later.

[Paddy]

I don't think they can be banned now, or banning them will not stop people getting them.

I think the world would be a better place if they were not around, it wont be long before people are using them to spy through peoples windows. One nearly caused a riot at a football game. The potential for misuse is massive.

I think the government are looking for a pretext to ban them even it means creating a false flag situation.

[minestrone]

Sounds like the United States and guns.

Essentially yes.

I had a rather long debate over this subject on Friday night. It started off as a debate of the effects of the internet on children then moved onto regulation. My point was that every major technical advancement we have had up until the internet has had to be regulated and we now accepted those regulations as necessary. Air travel, guns, media, drugs etc. But these advancements have happened over generations and the government of the day has had time to work out what to do with them.

Technological advancements now happen quicker than the government can react so they are ubiquitous before there is time to regulate. The point of gun control in the US came up as I made a point that guns were ubiquitous before they had a government and there was no going back.

Our government works on a system that really belongs in the 17th century and it needs to be changed.

So that is the kind of tulip I talk about on Friday nights, you probably all thought I would be drunk in a gutter or something.