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RE: Game of Drones
Thanks for all that information. That's super helpful! I live in the UK in a pretty urban area, and you're not allowed to fly in built up areas or too close to people unless you have a professional certification and submit requests to the local council and submit a risk assessment etc first. Which really isn't worth the effort unless you are working commercially.
There are locations outside the city but getting a free day where I can go and have the weather conditions be good dont happen often :)
They just passed a law here in the states, if you are flying for non-commercial use, you no longer need to register your drone, but we do have a rule that says do not fly over a crowd.
Yeah I heard you needed to register regardless in the US until recently. You've never had to do that here, but then the rules are still developing. Unfortunately we are reactive here and not proactive, so rules usually come in the form of new restrictions after someone has done something stupid. Like fly over an airport or crash into the palace gardens while the queen is in residence, or (and this i find rather amusing) use them to smuggle drugs and mobile phones into prisons! Gotta give them credit for ingenuity :)
You're absolutely correct, there is always one person who messes it up for the rest of us by doing something stupid. I can see the temptation in trying to get some amazing footage by flying near an airport or next to a helicopter, but it's not worth other peoples lives.
As far as the drug smuggling, I can see that being a norm in the years to come.
The drone i purchased does quite a bit, but i'm sure it doesn't even scratch the surface of more sophisticated ones. Here is an article where the New York City Firedepartment purchased an $85,000.00 drone. It's amazing what it can do.
And then there is this
Taxi Drones.
Unbelievable where technology is taking us.
That is amazing. I think so far we have only scratched the surface of what we can do with drones. Im not entirely convinced by the drone taxi as a mainstream form of transport but who knows how the technology will progress!
The drone taxi may be something that will most likely be popular when you and I are long gone, but I'm sure it's coming. I think we'll see deliveries from Amazon soon as well.
as the software improves and the drones get smaller I'm sure the next application (after logistics like amazon deliveries) would be for these drones to follow journalists around when reporting in the field. we are only still scratching the surface :)