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FAA Predicts 7 Million Drones By 2020 (timeslive.co.za)
An anonymous reader writes: The FAA is predicting that the number of drones in the U.S. will increase to 7 million by 2020, though they're still prohibited within 15 miles of Washington D.C. Earlier this month a drone even performed the first FAA-sanctioned drone delivery to an urban area, carrying food, water and a first-aid kit in a box attached to a rope, while a team led by a 15-year-old pilot won the $250,000 first-place prize in the first World Drone Prix in Dubai. The FAA logged 538 drone incidents in the U.S. over the last six months, according to a new report released Friday, including hundreds of incidents in which drones approached airports. But while one incident involved a drone within 20 feet of a plane, "the majority of the incidents are minor," reports The Verge, "with pilots or bystanders reporting drones that are flying in restricted airspace without necessarily endangering anyone."
7 million drones, the gov't is missing out on a bit of revenue from drone licenses.
Anyone serious would turn everyone upside down and see what falls out of their pockets. Republicans will do that because they don't respect rights.
One of the things that's on my bucket list is to install an AI (when they become sufficiently advanced, maybe a few more years) into a drone and release it and see what it does. I think much could be learned about the nature of intelligence and possibly even human nature.
Their kind doesn't want things to be filmed. Things to be filmed.
Reminder drones don't have pilots
I don't know where you come from, but that is definitely hostile.
Running from their kind is a heck of a lot less hassle from being dead.
Exactly. I have. Lot of plans, and being dead isn't one of them.
I don't plan on being dead any time soon. That will piss off the Republicans.
Ameruca should be under quarantine to protect humanity from infection.
"Everything is fine and under control" is the mantra of the republicans. Obviously that is not true.
With the recent unpleasantness we can't allow their kind to have any power.
You are lonely if you can't connect your mind to the other drones. All hail the borg queen!
" The FAA logged 538 drone incidents in the U.S. over the last six months, according to a new report released Friday, "
And not ONE has been verified, no radar signature or images in controlled airspace, not ONE! Typical FUD.
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The republicans have killed my entire world. I tried to stop them. I know more about their kind than most anyone.
based upon nothing more than /. posts.
My life and world is dead because of those republicans.
Republicans ruin everything. They ruin everything!
Same AC here. Republicans stopped me from having sex in public with goats. I went to someone else's farm to have sex with the horses. The Republican farmer called the Republican cops and the damn Republicans stopped that, too. Then I tried having sex with pigs at another farm. Stupid Republicans put an end to that, too. Now they're trying to ban me from having sex with sheep and humping trees in public. This proves the Republicans hate us and want us to die. To die. Their kind hates us and this proves it.
Republicans are so machine-like.
Exactly. They don't care about the people.
They have ruined HAM radio. Ruined HAM radio.
They are truly RepubliCAN'ts rather than republiCANs.
They want us to die.
One day the Democrats will fight back. That isn't this year, but it will happen someday. Those pukianz will regret it.
They are always against fighting for progress!
I think the FAA should mandate Nerf Drones. It'll just bounce off the plane, and the engines should be able to consume one with minimal damage.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
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Serious question: If I'm drunk on my ass and flying my drone, am I breaking a law? I only ask because I've got a new drone, and I've been sipping slivovitz since about 2pm.
Am I a danger to others?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Well, if you registered yourself like you were supposed to do then you clicked on a form that said you would not fly under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Now, enforcement might be a bit spottier than you are used to. You are unlikely to be pulled over by the Drone Police. However, if you were stupid enough to video your behavior and post it on social media, you might get a stern letter from the FAA.
Now, if you tried to make some money off the video, you really be in trouble.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Slivo FTW!!!
This is why I'm voting Trump 2016. He'll wipe out all these liberty-killing regulations so drunk drone-flying can be great again.
You read my mind.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'm thinking it won't belong before the kids are taking down commercial drones with open-source kits running on $11 embedded boards in $40 drones. The kids will be betting who can take down the highest value target with the lowest cost. All filmed on go-pros and uploaded to youtube, of course.
*Grabs popcorn*
No. Vegans have ruined ham radio.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
pervs spying on scantily clad neighbors or girls at beaches and waterparks, and illegal surveillance by cops and 'investigators'
1,000 legitimate uses of dam inspections, forest surveys, etc.
it wont be 77M but 77B of the damn things and the worst of it is, they're going to be self-aware. Here comes "Skynet"
Captcha: Congest
a. considering the report from the FAA's consultants: SO....has anyone verified that a million+ drones were sold last year? I doubt it.
b. considering the 2 largest manufacturers of drones don't report their sales nor profits? How many DID they sell? When they are cutting profit margins by cutting the retail 50% (saying to keep market share, though I think it's more of clearing inventory surplus)--we did not sell 1 million drones last year.
c. considering everything from a paper airplane to a DoD predator is a drone... A drone in today's *public speak* is not a toy, and not a military aircraft....
d. considering most sales are now outside the US, beyond the FAA jurisdiction... and only a 350k registered.
Inflated w/an agenda me thinks. Much like NASA, DoD, NIH, or any other department of govt's urgency for more funding.
Sports drones fly within inches of each other and if they hit? No big deal, its just a drone. It's small, low mass, no big issue, no loss of life. The fact you can't do that with civilian flights shows how much safer drones are.
The problem is the manned aircraft, Cesna and others flying low in drone airspace. The drone is just a toy with low mass, the manned aircraft is the thing that needs to be banned. No drone pilot would panic if they saw another drone near them. It's not a big deal. The problem is the manned aircraft, they're far bigger, far more mass, and with a pilot.
Jet's fly at 38000 feet, way above drones, and airport exclusion zones prevent drones and jet collisions (not that a drone presents much of a collision threat, its more fragile than a bird). So Jets are fine.
Enough, I've seen one 'near miss' where a helicopter pilot was flying over a beach and saw a drone like 30 feet away and called it a near miss! The most dangerous thing in the sky was the helicopter flying over the beach. If the drone had falled it's small, low mass compared to him, he's the big problem.
I was wondering what period of time Trump was going to take us back to, when America was truly great, and I realized that you just hit it on the head.
The right to keep and bear drones, shall not be infringed. When we lost the right to drink and drone, we really did enter a dark age of government overreach. And just think of if it was an uninsured illegal alien who was driving that drone. Won't somebody think of the children?