Re:Japan outlaws flying drones while drunk
by LiquidSky on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:40AM
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>Randomly falling drones are also unlikely to hit someone outside the most densely packed crowds.
Like those found in many Japanese cities?
Japanese drones are already banned in areas with over 4,000 people per km^2.
Re:Japan outlaws flying drones while drunk
by ojilles on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:43AM
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And it’s already outlawed over cities in Japan.
I'd see them as a cause of traffic accidents/injuries by distraction.
Just as being drunk in public is already a finable offence I think, as is causing disagreements on the public space.
Yes, they're rare because you're not sampling over the set of people operating them while drunk.
That’s likely to underestimate risks as there does not seem to be any deaths related to drunk drone operators.
With how many drones have been sold worldwide, if drones where even vaguely as dangerous as cars per hour we could easily find hundreds of deaths. So, even hypothetically cars are at minimum hundreds of times more dangerous.
So, while drunk droning may be a safety hazard, it’s vastly less risky than drunk driving.