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NBC News Reports US Will Require Registration For Consumer Drones (nbcnews.com)
Gizmodo and Engadget are both reporting (and both pointing to a report at NBC News) that the Department of Transportation is expected to announce Monday a plan to regulate drone use in the U.S., based on fears of danger to aviation. From the relied-on report at NBC News:
The federal government will announce a new plan requiring anyone buying a drone to register the device with the U.S. Department of Transportation, NBC news has learned. ... Under the plan, the government would work with the drone industry to set up a structure for registering the drones, and the regulations could be in place by Christmas.
That sounds like an impossible task, if it's to take in all remote-controlled flying devices that might be described as drones. About this time last year, Chris Anderson (ex-Wired editor, and now head of 3D Robotics) estimated that about half a million drones had already been sold in the U.S., and that sounds like an undercount even for then, given the many cheap-and-cheerful options. From suppliers like Banggood, tiny quadcopters can now be had for less than $20, though it's hard to think of them as a danger to aviation.
Usually morons writing plain instead of plane are not exactly the people you want to listen to as far as regulation are concerned...
Is there anything Americans aren't terrified of today?
Guns.
Drones must be registered, but unlike in other nations, it's societally acceptable that wingnuts can purchase a gun and then shoot innocent children.
Because FREEDOM.
If the entitled are the bureacrats, then yes. The "stupid things" were called "being elected/appointed".
I'm sick of being babied to death. I don't want to live in a police sate nor a nanny state. It's acceptable to lose a building or two every once in a while for the freedoms we all aught to have. There are 150,000 people who die every day. 3,000 people a year in the United States is *NOTHING* to be worried about. The sad truth is the United States *MURDERS* more people and if we really cared abut life we would be defunding the military and police and eliminating capital punishment. Not adding more regulations that'll have zero impact on actual abuse. All these regulations do is increase costs and give abusive power hungry people jobs. People who commit crime generally don't even realize they are doing it or don't think about the consequences. Police can't stop crime generally speaking. They can only produce more of it (by arresting more people, or produce less of it by arresting fewer people). Our system makes no sense what-so-ever. It is based on an outdated concept that doesn't even work and yet we have the highest incarceration rate of any first world country.