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Elektrica Atellani Posted at 2018-3-13 15:31
I understand your point and this is not a comment against what you wrote, but a simple consideration:
as much as we're all concentrating on how dangerous drones might be, we have roads that see flocks of drivers driving erratically, being a danger to other people, smashing into other cars, just because the most important things in life seems to be reading the latest (Most likely pointless) message. Using a cell phone while driving causes 1000s of deaths every year and cyclists wearing simple headphones are a danger to others as well, yet we need to concentrate on drones...Probably golf balls are more dangerous than drones! As we rush to regulate even how much we should breathe, we could, for example, have embedded hardware that blocks your phone if you're going faster than 10mph. That would make everyone's life muh safer, yet we don't really care or do anything serious about it. We could also build cars that will not start unless you can verify your alcohol level, but we could also make cars that cannot go faster than the speed limit (What is the point of going faster). The list goes on and on. All I am saying is that there are more pressing and deadly issues that we completely accept as normal (Pain killers anyone?) and do nothing about it (How about cancerogenous flame retardants found in most furniture in the USA, cleverly introduced by the tobacco lobbies?). I cannot understand how drones 'Must' be banned everywhere while they cause little or no harm, whereas real dangerous actions or objects are being ignored or have fines that are almost never applied. Just go on the highway, in countries where cell phones are forbidden while driving and look at how many people are driving face down, looking at their phones...It's a TON, resulting in hundreds of thousands of accidents a year, if not millions worldwide.
Just food for thoughts, what should we concentrate on regulating? I am not even throwing weapons into the debate. We freak out about mad cow while the common cold is the true killer. Ok for regulating things, but maybe with some logic and in order of danger.
Even I agree with your considerations about rude driving, golf balls and almost everything you passionately wrote here, I recall this is a forum about drones, not about cars driving. The guys who make the (bad) laws about drones in our countries and anywhere in the world are not road traffic experts nor interested in making any comparisons with nothing else than air space and air traffic rules. And fact is, the airspace it is not prepared for drone "invasion". It's a very conservative area or field and they where overpassed by the huge amount of available drones. Few but still too many, invading airports or restricted flight areas over the cities. Think only on emergency hellicopters servicing hospitals having almost exclusive rights to fly low altitude over the cities to encounter drones on its path. I'm pretty sure your friends had no idea where the hospitals and helliports were in Sevilla when flown their drone.With all the bad publicity arising from brave (and, IMHO, selfish) videos which are boosting and fuelling the rulers for tighter measures (it is a sort of arguments they are looking for and we are offering them "for free" to justify more control and restrictions). And also the rest of the population and non-drone users.
It is because of this bad publicity, more and more, drone fliers are regarded as rule breakers and subjected to increased control and also not always friendly thoughts or words from people wanderring arround the place we are flying our drone.
Personally I'm getting sick of the increasing number of countries forbidding the use of drones in Africa or Asia, with so many open spaces, remote areas and scarcely populated, with landscapes suitable for drone tourists. And having to take out from my travel wishlist more and more countries and places because some earlier hobby fellows upseted the local civil authorities with some videos attracting thousands of views on their personal or private social-media pages but spoiling the rules for all the others who came at a latter time.
This shouldn't be a race on who's getting the bravest or nicest (but on what future community cost) images.
This must be a common campaign to improve the overall perception and public opinion on drone users.
I wonder if your friends had sent any previous letter or message to the Spanish civil authority pledging, as potential tourists and "income providers" to Spain's tourist economy, for a more relaxed legal framework...It would have been nice and useful...
If we do not act (and fly) responsibly, if we do not only break the rules, but we proudly post it on Youtube &co., this will become harder and harder.
Do you think, DJI, had any intention to control more and more our flights with, the, so far !!! voluntarilly (??????) programms like Aeroscope and other we may ignore to exist or have in our firmwares ???
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