It'll be some dumbass with a shotgun or a rifle just waiting for it.
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wonder if the google one has any defense capabilities for rednecks
Looking forward to a climatepunk future where corps participate in drone air-to-air combat, firing package interdiction missiles
"Destroying someone's property is a Class 3 misdemeanor by default. A Class 3 misdemeanor is punishable by up to a $500 fine. But destruction of property can also be charged as a Class 1 misdemeanor if the value of the damage to the property is less than $1000.00. A Class 1 misdemeanor carries up to 12 months in jail and up to a $2,500 fine. If the value to the damage to the property is over $1000.00, then it's punishable as a Class 6 felony. A Class 6 felony carries up to 5 years in prison."
Intentionally damaging an aircraft is a felony, so I bet that would carry over to drones if they said they were part of an airline.
Yeah idk why people think that people would get away with taking out a drone. Itd nust be like shooting at someone shit.
Wouldn't stop some dumbass with a shotgun or rifle from trying anyways
They have air carrier classification by the FAA, this would be the same as shooting a cargo plane.
Expect a hefty jail sentence
Just doesn't seem very secure, I'd just have them bring stuff by courier like normal people.
Why lmao
Drone delivery is insanely faster than anything a human could ever pull off, and probably more secure as well, given that drones won't have a bad day and decide to throw your boxes over the fence.
That's just doing it as destruction of property case, speaking as someone largely ignorant of US law, I imagine the FAA and such would bring up 18 U.S. Code § 32 and such, destruction of an aircraft, which has much harsher penalties.
Even a hobbiest drone is in a grey area now. One of the FAA rules on drones defined even commercially purchased drones as unmanned Airframes, despite it being a different classification then traditional air frames. There was alot of debate in drone community I was of whether we get the existing protections afforded by being an Airframe under this new law. No deffinative answer was reached at the time, and there was no comment from the FAA. So who knows.
I'm sure if they threw the book at the first clown to rob one and they got slapped with "DOWNED AN AIRCRAFT" level punishments, then it would act as a deterrent.
Would make for quite the rap sheet:
"I see you've got a history of petty larceny, jaywalking, a few speeding tickets, and destroying an aircraft".
You're going to get real tired of the sound of 14 motors flying over your house multiple times a day. Drone motors are LOUD.
Also, how is it even remotely more secure than just a courier?
Not to mention how absolutely chaotic the airspace would get, drones tech wise may be becoming better but failure rate is still just a numbers game, especially with small electronics. Very little has to go wrong for these things to just fall out of the air, unlike helicopters and airplanes, multirotors have no backup or safe way to land besides having spare motors, and if a motor goes ham or an ESC desyncs you're still fucked no matter how many backup motors you have. There's a reason why things that fly have very high maintenance and security standards, because anything that falls can become lethal if there's enough altitude for gravity to do its job. Having a swarm of up to 5+ pound relatively cheap drones flying about that can fall out of the sky at any moment is not a good thing.
Source: am a RC enthusiast
Because all it takes is some twat with a pellet gun to knock it out of the sky and good luck ever finding it.
Besides your package falling out of the sky?
there goes more jobs
I'm willing to bet that drones are ecologically superior to the current delivery standard.
The loss of jobs is an issue but I'd rather solve that with a UBI than by forcing companies to hire people they don't need.
We need to rethink our relationship to work. Not everyone should need to labor.
can't wait for that dumbass to be served and arrested for discharging a firearm at an airplane which is owned by a company that has practically unlimited resources.
I normally think you're quite a twat but this is one of the most truthful things I've seen said on this forum in a long time.
That's a little fucking rude, and also entirely unnecessary to the rest of the post.
Not really, you'd probably have more luck with birdshot but these things fly high, and are carrying retail items for the most part, so there's not much of a point to shooting them down.
Why would that happen? Are you just randomly assuming that they are going to frequently drop things?
In a statement to NPR, the FAA says Wing was able to qualify for an air
carrier certificate because it has shown "its operations met the FAA's
rigorous safety requirements."
They're also going to be traveling 400 feet above the ground, which is going to eliminate most/any sound woes.
Well in this case shooting down a drone with the intent to steal the parcel it was carrying would not only have the penalty of destruction of an aircraft, but mail theft as well, which is punishable by up to 8⅓ to 25 years in prison in addition to fines and restitution. So in this case if convicted of both, you're looking at 45 years in federal prison.
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