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CNN Gets a First-Of-Its-Kind Waiver To Fly Drones Over Crowds (techcrunch.com)
The FAA has granted CNN a waiver that allows it to fly its Vantage Robotics Snap drone over open-air crowds of people at altitudes of up to 150 feet. "This is a new precedent in this kind of waiver: Previous exemptions allowed flight of drones over people in closed set operations (like for filmmaking purposes) and only when tethered, with a max height of 21 feet," reports TechCrunch. From the report: The new waiver granted to CNN, as secured through its legal counsel Hogan Lovells, allows for flight of the Vantage UAV (which is quite small and light) above crowds regardless of population density. It was a big win for the firm and the company because it represents a change in perspective on the issue for the FAA, which previously viewed all requests for exceptions from a "worst-case scenario" point of view. Now, however, the FAA has accepted CNN's "reasonableness Approach," which takes into account not just the potential results of a crashed drone, but also the safe operating history of the company doing the flying, their built-in safety procedures, and the features included on the drone model itself that are designed to mitigate the results of any negative issues.
1. Attend newsworthy open-air event.
2. Look for CNN drone, stand underneath.
3. ???
4. Profit!
Compared to a camera crane, it's pretty light-weight.
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
What would CNN actually need a from for any way? Its not like they actually check any facts and half the time they arnt even reporting from the correct location live. I'm still waiting on CNN to read me the Wiki Leaks since its illegal for us common folk to do such a task. If they gave ISIS permission to fly drowns at least I could believe the reports produced by it and posted on their media.
Seeing as how they use helicopters instead right now, this seems like it's still an improvement.
... announced long ago by FAA.
The drone industry has more money than tobacco and gun combined.
They will be ubiquitous. CNN is the test case.
They floodgate are open.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Looking at the parent and grand parent ... I'm wondering if we can get England to take us back.
"We were just joking about being independent. Can we come back as something like Canada? Or maybe be a colony again? Pleeeeeaaase?!"
as fucked up as the u.s. is right now, the u.k. isn't fairing that much better.
This is great. Now CNN will be able to be even more selective about showing one side of a story and not the other side.
If no drones are allowed, then any drone is easily identified as a problem, and can be dealt with.
If any drones are allowed, then how will illicit drones be identified?
Meanwhile, in a different country, I've been doing this for the past 2 years (for a small company, not a big news org).
Meanwhile Harpy Clinton was railing on about something incoherent and suddenly mentioned how she doesn't like sexual predators and then completely excused her husband for raping and assaulting other women. Battered wife syndrome I guess.
Thats nothing! Instead of being married to one Trump IS a sexual predator.
This has failed servo, failed ESC, failed battery, failed nut on prop, failed motor, failed transmitter, failed receiver , etc., etc. etc. =====>>>>>> LAWSUIT written all over it.
Caution: Contents under pressure
Not the typical drone design with shrouded blades and snaps apart (bits flying off reduce impact from bulk bits). The safety elements incorporated in this design is clearly the reason for acceptance, this really needs to be pointed out, vs idiots who take an drone with exposed blade amongst people.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
...like CNN's ratings.
If CNN wants to be stupid and take risks that endanger others fine. I don't really care. We just need to hold CNN to account for any injuries or damage CNN causes. It's no different than driving a car. We're all a risk to pedestrians on the roads and other vehicles. What should happen in a free market is CNN should take out insurance to protect itself from accidents and cover any injuries it causes. While I'm against mandating insurance for drones I'm all for holding drone operators liable for any damage. New Hampshire doesn't mandate insurance and yet it's got the highest percentage of insurance drivers in the country! Imagine that. The free market at work. Basically not mandating insurance reduces the amount that insurance companies can charge thereby keeping insurance prices within a sane range that more people will be able to afford and ultimately end up getting insured even where they don't technically have to.
Ummm, no sweetie. The "FAKE N00Z!!!" meme was conceived by democrats as a way to get rid of the Breitbart.coms of the world by conflating them with sites that literally made shit up.
The fact that Trump was so successful in hijacking the term is due purely to its staggering hypocrisy, not to mention that it was the most laughably stupid and transparent attempt at propaganda since "Freedom Fries".
Will CNN report if one of their drones crashed in a crowd?
Watch James Oâ(TM)Keefe get his own drones and do a smashing expose where he gets CNNâ(TM)s drones to admit their fabrications on camera.
flying directly over crowds 500ft is a dumb way to lose your pilot's license.
Umm, no nazi faggot.
Vantage Robotics UAV is a product, not a service... You need to pay attention to the article.
Now whenever Trump complains baselessly at his "rallies" that CNN doesn't dare show the size of the crowd (the always do, actually) we can get a drone-lens view of his orangeness from entirely new and revealing angles. Weeeeee!
woooohoooo I get to play with my flying toys without the stupid "drone" fear. Oh yea, im not CNN and didnt "dontate" alot of money to someones campaign, so nope, they will still come after me for flying my toys away from people
Russians who colluded with Trump, no doubt.
Uh huh. I've always been curious what it's like to be a brainwashed imbecile ready to believe anything without evidence, simply because some random person with an agenda said so.
Could you explain why Trump is a sexual predator? Who did he victimize? Specifically... Name them.
It's just another example of the swamp. Remnants of the Obama and Clinton and Bush administrations are still in place and their loyalties are too.
I don't care what the FAA or CNN claim. The law must apply to everybody or it's not a law at all. If there is no true law restricting drone flight, then anybody can do that. But if there is a law but CNN somehow got a waiver, then the law applies to nobody and anybody can do it.
No exception.
You guys need to check the news every six months or so. Trump won the election. The campaign is over. That means that Clinton is mostly politically irrelevant now. What you guys need to do now is show how what Trump's doing is productive or meets normal standards for human decency or something, because he actually won and is the President.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
I don't want a bunch of fucking drones over my head.
He RAPED his ex-wife you retard dumbfuck
Eat a dick, get an education
Evidence?
Helicopters get a free pass, if operation isn't explicitly hazardous.