10 Reasons Why It Sucks Being a Drone Owner
The growing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones in recent years seems to have caught the attention of everybody and created a multi-billion dollar industry that thrives on the back of technological innovation. For critics and enthusiasts of drones, the vehicle have becomes widely acceptable because they are inexpensive to produce, easy to deploy, highly accurate and promise to make life easier. In spite of these benefits, drones continue to raise various concerns. For instance, most civilians do not know what rights they have to give up in order enjoying the benefits of using drones. Added to this fact, the inadequacy and ambiguity of airspace laws to protect entities that use drones …show more content…
Counterproductive and destabilizing
A growing number of civilians have a generally negative opinion about drones because of their impact in warfare, where there are known to cause property damage and civilian deaths, including that of innocent people such as children and women. In war situations, many people see drones as heartless and counter-productive in advancing the ideals of …show more content…
Ambiguity of current airspace right laws – there is growing inadequacy on who owns the sky; a fact that has created a huge debate over the use of domestic drones because current laws do not adequately spell this out. The ambiguity has seen the cases of aerial trespassing become a big concern to every drone owner.
9. Lack of foresight – Since the use of drones, especially for domestic and commercial purposes is a relatively new phenomenon. There is little oversight on how drones should be used. In the war front, drones have been used to tacitly kill suspected terrorist without the benefit of a trial. First responders have also been a victim of drone strikes because of the double tap feature on most military drones
10. Spectral shortfall
The growing number of civilian, commercial, and military drones means more need for property control signals, data links and adequate ground control. This problem is also already being felt because of limited RF spectrum, which is available at a premium. To overcome this problem, some drones are forced to use unprotected radio spectrum, which may be vulnerable to intentional and unintentional
The growing use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones in recent years seems to have caught the attention of everybody and created a multi-billion dollar industry that thrives on the back of technological innovation. For critics and enthusiasts of drones, the vehicle have becomes widely acceptable because they are inexpensive to produce, easy to deploy, highly accurate and promise to make life easier. In spite of these benefits, drones continue to raise various concerns. For instance, most civilians do not know what rights they have to give up in order enjoying the benefits of using drones. Added to this fact, the inadequacy and ambiguity of airspace laws to protect entities that use drones …show more content…
Counterproductive and destabilizing
A growing number of civilians have a generally negative opinion about drones because of their impact in warfare, where there are known to cause property damage and civilian deaths, including that of innocent people such as children and women. In war situations, many people see drones as heartless and counter-productive in advancing the ideals of …show more content…
Ambiguity of current airspace right laws – there is growing inadequacy on who owns the sky; a fact that has created a huge debate over the use of domestic drones because current laws do not adequately spell this out. The ambiguity has seen the cases of aerial trespassing become a big concern to every drone owner.
9. Lack of foresight – Since the use of drones, especially for domestic and commercial purposes is a relatively new phenomenon. There is little oversight on how drones should be used. In the war front, drones have been used to tacitly kill suspected terrorist without the benefit of a trial. First responders have also been a victim of drone strikes because of the double tap feature on most military drones
10. Spectral shortfall
The growing number of civilian, commercial, and military drones means more need for property control signals, data links and adequate ground control. This problem is also already being felt because of limited RF spectrum, which is available at a premium. To overcome this problem, some drones are forced to use unprotected radio spectrum, which may be vulnerable to intentional and unintentional