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  • Tony2

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    Could get interesting. It looked like the examples were not trying to evade. Police drone high speed pursuit at 5 lol
     

    Younggun

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    I guess it's one way to enforce laws against unregistered machines.

    https://www.facebook.com/NowThisFuture/videos/1027038927337287/

    No really.

    The way the registration of pilots works ("drone" is not actually registered) the number can be affixed on OR inside the sUAS. As long as tools are no required to access the compartment the number can be internal and not visible. So even if someone on the ground has some super high power binoculars and enough time to look for a number, not finding one will give no evidence of illegal activity.


    Asides from that.....the idea of running down a "drone" with another and being able to catch it in a net is pretty laughable. Maybe if they shoot the operator first so he can't run with it.


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    TexasBrandon

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    Quadcopter, multirotor, tricopter, they are not drones.... They have no artificial intelligence that lets them be self autonomous. They require human interaction at almost all times with the exception of some of the photography muiltorotors that let you plan flight paths. they don't weigh over 25kg which is what most "drones" are around or over and they don't carry out missions nor kill people. Also, drones generally don't have rotors. People call them drones for publicity and the negativity and/or stigma that it seems to carry. You want to see what drones are? Look below:

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    More:
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    And after looking a bit, I could barely find any actual military/commerical level "drones" that are rotor based and not planes simply because they don't work on the battlefield as efficiently due to speed and lack of ability. There are indeed multi rotor "drones" though from what I saw. However, a hubsan x4, Syma x5c, ZMR 250, Parrot, DJI, and whatever else are not "drones" in any aspect. Simply put, if a human needs to be involved post launch outside of just watching it isn't a drone.

    Sign up with the FAA if you want to, it's another attempt at controlling something they have no legal basis nor need to control. What that video shows is a good control effort in the event someone stupid does something stupid though but that assumes they can react quickly enough. In the end, efforts like that are all that is needed, not more stupid regulation.
     
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