All jokes about redneck mark themselves spare Amazon parcel with their 12 - gauge aside , drones , privacy , and private property post somethorny problemsfor America ’s fast - raise quadrotor obsession . An opt - in , house - by - house permissions connection could be an graceful solution .
The ambition ofNoFlyZone , a pool of ( small ) droning producer , is to make a nationwide database of homeowners and flight license . If you do n’t want drones to be capable to overfly your hall , the solvent is simple : enter your house in the on-line database , and after the next troll of microcode update , lagger will be incompetent of overflying your property , in the same means that they’recurrently bannedfrom the airspace around airport and , uh , the White House .
It ’s an neat solution , but as it stands , far from a perfect one . It relies on manufacturers being a part of the organization , and at the moment , a few big name — DJI , Parrot and 3D Robotics , to name a couple — are n’t members .
The rate of borrowing is also quite slow : once you enter your theatre in the database , that information has to be push to the maker , who then incorporates it into a firmware update , which the drone owner then has to download ( and let ’s be honest , barely anyone bothers to update their smartphone , let alone a drone ) . And , of course , there ’s the fact that lots of hobbyist build their laggard from components or range usance microcode , and therefore will be blissfully ignorant of the database as they buzz your bare-breasted sunbathing .
As a hardheaded resolution , then , it ’s a fleck miss in its current form . But as a proof - of - construct of what afuture , perhaps government - backed solutionwith more tooth could look like ? None too shabby . [ NoFlyZoneviaTechCrunch ]
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