"Jackson, who is chair of the Senate Judiciary committee, which oversees legislation on privacy issues, said she wants to avoid an incident like the one in New Jersey when a man shot a UAS (drone) out of the sky near his house. Last January, residents of Deer Trail, Colorado, considered issuing licenses to shoot down drones that enter their airspace. Plus, they're dangerous pieces of equipment, Jackson continued, pointing to a fatal accident in Brooklyn two years ago. A 19-year old lost control of his model helicopter and it sliced off the top of his head. "These things can decapitate people," Jackson said.
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Also, imagine a 55 pound drone at 1000 to 6000 feet. It loses power at one of these altitudes and falls at a minimum of 100 mph. If anyone or group of people is hit by something traveling 100mph or more and that weighs anything over the size of a rock the size of your thumb they are either dead or pieces of them are no longer attached to their bodies anymore.
So, when these things start falling out of the sky and killing people (hopefully not on purpose) likely you will see companies like Farmer's insurance or State Farm covering the liability if people are wise enough to have it and willing to pay for it.
Because it is inevitable, people are going to die from these little drones. The quadcopters likely won't decapitate people but likely people will lose fingers and eyes a lot who use them sort of like the wounds people get from firecrackers when they don't throw them away from their fingers, hands and bodies in time. This will be especially true of hobbyists on their first or second or third outing with their new quadcopters. It will be less true of professionals who have had enough training. But, even with professionals with good equipment, people are going to be dying when one of these things crashes from 400 feet or above or even 100 feet if the power suddenly shuts off to one or more of the rotors which are the control surfaces on a quadcopter drone.
Also, I think it likely will become much more common that people will shoot drones out of the sky over their private property and estates. One way likely will be people will have small EMP generators that could fry the electronics and just cause the thing to lose power and crash. However, something like that might also fry your smartphone, and any computer that was on at the time too and the microchips in your car if it was running too.
So, I think more and more people will shoot drones in areas they don't want them out of the sky with guns, and air rifles etc. It's just human nature to do this worldwide.
Also, inventors will create small radio jammers to prevent signals from the ground to control their drones over their area which likely will cause them to crash too. Property owners, (especially movie stars will buy these devices to bring down drones televising their private weddings and such or they will hire snipers to bring the drones out of the sky and down to the ground.
Later: As I thought more about this, this is as big a thing in it's own way as when automobiles showed up and people died when horses spooked just from seeing a car and backfiring. Also, many many people died in accidents less than 5 or 10 miles and hour then because the glass wasn't safety glass and cut people up and they bled to death or they were impaled on various knobs or gadgets on the floor window winders etc within the car when it stopped quickly or just thrown from the car at 10 or 20 miles an hour into a tree or rock or onto the ground.
This being a new technology with drones falling out of the sky and such from wind, rain, snow or drunk drone pilots like on the White House lawn is going to change how we deal with them just like Automobiles when they first showed up in the 1880s in experimental forms. In fact the first steam trolley was invented in 1769. The first hydrogen powered internal combustion car was 1807, In 1886 the first petrol or gasoline powered auto-mobile the Benz Patent-Motorwagen was invented by Karl Benz.[2]
So, just like with cars Drones will likely have a similar effect on mankind in many different ways. However, I think maybe planes is a better comparison than cars because cars don't usually fall out of the sky and kill people.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_
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The early history of the automobile can be divided into a number of eras, based on the prevalent means of propulsion. Later periods were defined by trends in exterior ... - l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/agentsheets/
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The History of the Automobile. Starting in the late 1700's, European engineers began tinkering with motor powered vehicles. Steam, combustion, and electrical motors ... - The history of the automobile it is estimated that over 100,000 patents and dozens of inventors created the modern automobile.
Here is some stuff on the History of Airplanes too:
- The history of flight and the invention of the airplane including inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright.
- www.wright-brothers.org/History_Wing/
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A History of the Airplane. Part of the Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company, a virtual museum of pioneer aviation, the invention of the airplane, and man's first flights. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_
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The history of aviation has extended over more than two thousand years from the earliest kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic, and hypersonic flight by ...
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