Renegade Navy Drone flies into DC Airspace

Rogue Navy drone veers into D.C. airspace 

begin quote from above yahoo news article

The U.S. Navy has admitted that it lost control of a helicopter drone during a test flight in Maryland earlier this month, leaving it to fly unguided for more than 30 minutes and 23 miles and violating Washington's restricted airspace. The drone's operators eventually regained control and got the drone safely back to base. The Navy tells the New York Times that a "software issue" caused the snafu.
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Whether this actually was a software snafu or confused Naval personnel it is the kind of danger that I wrote about in:
The Future of Drones

The new IRan Unmanned bomber drone in the following article is also related.
Iran Launches Unmanned Bomber

quote from my own article "The Future of Drones" above.

I thought about what the difference really was between Today's predator drones of the U.S. Military and CIA and those future drones in the Terminator series.

And to my horror really the only difference fundamentally is programming. So, I extrapolated because of my knowledge of history in that every weapon that has ever been developed at one point or another has usually been used on some enemy or some segment of humanity. So, to extrapolate what predator drones will morph into is kind of disturbing to one's psyche if one morphs forward 25, 50 or 100 years in one's thinking. end quote.


So, the real problem is like in my above article I mentioned that all software can either be poorly written or there can be media corruption of good software. But the biggest problem of all with a flying drone is that it also has artificial intelligence if it loses wireless connection with it's human pilot on the ground. And if this artificial intelligence isn't programmed to avoid Washington DC and is heading in that direction when it loses wireless communication the next time then you are going to see Navy, Air Force or even CIA drones shot out of the sky above the White House or Capital building because if the Washington DC parameters aren't covered in the Artificial intelligence of the drone almost anything could happen. Computers are stupid. They are more dangerous than little children below 3 years old.
A little child can drown in a bucket of water if it is unsupervised. What crazy thing can artificial intelligence get into if it is flying along without a human pilot guiding it because wireless communication has been lost temporarily or permanently?

I actually found this next quote from the yahoo news article at the top of the page the most disturbing of all:

It's unclear how frequently drones fly in U.S. skies. Some local police departments have already begun using them for law enforcement, and the Department of Homeland Security began using drones to monitor the border with Mexico in June. Many cities — and drone manufacturers — are pushing the Federal Aviation Administration to update its rules and allow for wider use in the United States.

If you have ever programmed computers for a living or programmed them in college You just know that this is going to be a nightmare and all sorts of bad things are going to happen and hopefully not to honest citizens or Presidents, Governors, Senators or Congressmen and Women. People who aren't programmers have no idea how potentially bad this could get relatively quickly if no one is minding the store(so to speak).