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Re:Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Sp... by dman on Friday July 19, 2013 @12:25PM (#6071130)
Where theres spy theres always counter spy. If ticket giving drones get more widespread it will make economic sense to launch a drone service to monitor the ticket giving drones.
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Re:Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Sp... by georgemcbay on Friday July 19, 2013 @01:41PM (#6071663)
It is cute that you think there's any chance in hell that such a service would be granted permission to fly drone-spotting drones by the FAA.

In any case, a single 1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS can cover a huge amount of surveillance area and within a few years that technology could be commonplace, so the answer could easily always be "yes, of course there is a drone watching your car right now", making that information basically useless.

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Re:Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Sp... by oijaf888 on Friday July 19, 2013 @01:53PM (#6071738)
The FAA would prohibit amateur RC planes where drones are operational?
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Re:Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Sp... by georgemcbay on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:09PM (#6071849)
No, the FAA wouldn't prohibit amateur RC planes, but how exactly do you implement a drone-spotting operation using amateur RC planes? Even ignoring the complexity of coordinating such a thing, the short range such planes have and the need for constantly re-powering the planes, what sensor do you mount on amateur RC sized planes that is capable of spotting a drone flying at up to 30,000 feet?
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