No, they'll do whatever they want and kill people deliberately, frequently, whenever they say something which disagrees with the dictatorship state definition of truth. Give it a decade

How long can these even stay airborn? This is a REALLY stupid idea.

Well when they crash the company needs to replace the whole drone, so they are probably going to try to avoid that when possible.

That said, they should have to obey faa regs, but while the laws for private use are pretty clear, the commercial use regulations are layered and sort of in flux. Major operators are always pushing to have laws adjusted, and because leadership in the US is generally overly supportive of big business, those changes often go into place.

In other words, there ARE laws, but you know, it's the US, so they can probably change them.

Isn't there an fcc rule about drones needing to be in the line of sight of the operator

Next week having closed courtains will be illegal. What's going on in there? Probably something suspicious! Why is your bathroom window frosted?!

I have no doubt this is thiel's work. He needs the data for his surveillance machine.

They will go down kicking and screaming. A company like flock has tons of investor capital. That results in a board putting tons of pressure on executive leadership. They will never go "oops nevermind this was a bad idea". It's just a other front in the class war against the billionaire Epstein class.

No, it's not weird.

"We know cops are racist so we've lessened their load by making our drones racist too."

"Why are they not clapping"

I read it as the drones protecting the civilians from the trigger-happy cops rushing in first.

How does that even change the situation to make things safer? Are they gonna crash the drone into a suspect to diffuse a situation? Unless Flock is advertising domestic drone strikes, then the only feasible deliverables are more spying and more profiling.

It is if you ask me.

one thing I learned is that everything is legal as long as you don't get caught.

According to my laws, this is not forbidden.

And when they get hacked, people will be able to do mass shootings from the comfort of their own homes. That's what I call progress!

Skeet shooting: city edition

time to deploy our own counter-drone drones

This is already a thing

First thing I thought of was "TARGET PRACTICE!"

I don't think sending a couple drones to canvas a city grid from the sky would count as less useful. In fact, it'd be a lot faster than strapping a camera to a truck/car. Really depends how they are used. But worst case scenario, both drones and fixed cameras work in conjunction, which they obviously would.

While I agree that the street-level cameras should urgently be taken care of, don't underestimate what a stationary aerial drone can do over a couple of hours.

Listen to Radiolab's Eye in the Sky episode. Think of the possibilities that have opened up because of drone tech in the 10 years since it first aired (and the 20 years since the tech was used in Iraq). It's truly frightening what these drones will be able to accomplish once they are in place.

I have a 12G one.

Converting a little microwave oven to a homemade jammer gun never hurt anyone (it has).

A lot of americans already have them. I'm unfamiliar with them, but they've all got names like dezziteegoo and smiffunwessun.

No. Its highly illegal to jam frequencies. If you find one legal to jam the drone can change frequency.

Genuine question...I've only ever thought that was some kind of movie magic we all accepted as reality. Could you blind a camera with any kind of laser pointer? Like, Dollar store shit would work? or it needs to be a special frequency or something?

Probably pretty easy with a shotgun

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_VNnkB-i54

Depending on the drone, might be harder than I initially thought

It's so distinct that it must be intentional.