You will soon have to register your hobby toy with the government...
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/19/dr...istered-with-u-s-government-says-f-a-a-d-o-t/
http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/19/dr...istered-with-u-s-government-says-f-a-a-d-o-t/
Anyone plan on getting a drone?
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This is ridiculous what about the rc planes and helicopters. Never been a "problem" till now. What's next licence required to drive and tab a rc car.
^ I guess the main difference is with RC Helicopters / Planes there was the aspect of having to building them and and the high cost of owning and running them, along with the fact not many of those hobbyists armed their equipment with cameras
On the other hand, when you look at the cost of a drone, and the ease of adding a camera to them along with the natural argument "the invasion of privacy issue" it doesn't fair well for drones... Also, a lot of people who i see use them tend not to really care about where they are flying them and imo are an accident waiting to happen...
On the other hand, when you look at the cost of a drone, and the ease of adding a camera to them along with the natural argument "the invasion of privacy issue" it doesn't fair well for drones... Also, a lot of people who i see use them tend not to really care about where they are flying them and imo are an accident waiting to happen...
All that considered I still don't see what registering these devices is going to accomplish...Say a particular drone is registered,I'm guessing it would have some kind of registry number assigned to it but what good would that do the authorities?....after it was used for whatever offending task it's owner wanted to carry out it can't be identified as it then just flies away and no one is certain who it belonged to.
video/camera devices have been used on r/c helicopters and planes for years and are actually dirt cheap now. What sets the drone apart from an rc plane or copter is the noise level. You can hover some of these drones outside say a window and videotape someone changing without them even noticing it. Its an efficient and fairly cheap spying tool
I just commented on the different technology available, not the moral or legality of the issue.
Likely they will impose some type of registration fee....another way for the government to tax it's citizens...