Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw

Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by jrockway on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:27PM (#9925530)

Remember the Penny Arcade comic where "normal person + anonymity + audience = total fuckwad" [1]? I think what we have here is "normal person + anonymity + airplane = airspace incursions".

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/S=0/comic/2004/03/19

Drones take away the risk of consequences for your actions. It's kind of like bicycle/car accidents. Driver hits a bicyclist. Bicyclist leaves the scene of the accident in a body bag. Driver drives away with some scratches on the car. With that kind of outcome, there isn't much incentive for the driver to drive safer -- his ass is not on the line.

Drones are the same way. Crash your drone into an aircraft and kill 300 people you've never heard of? Oh well, you just walk away. Much easier than learning the rules for navigating controlled airspace.

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by jameshart on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:59PM (#9925773)

There's something about drones that seems to engender this - it's like people think the word 'drone' means 'thing which is outside the normal scope of consequences'. Like, for example, people are actually shooting other people's drones down[1]. And when Amazon talk about using drones for delivery, the first response in any discussion is "what's to stop people stealing the drones?"

You're right, drones are like the internet of the sky.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/06/29/court_rul...

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by Phlarp on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @05:38PM (#9926004)

I wonder where people could have gotten it into their minds that "drones" operate above the law, or that their operators can kill whomever they please without consequence.

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by bargl on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:36PM (#9925597)

There are also very few regulations on drones, and there are no licenses/permits required to learn the rules in order to fly them.

https://www.faa.gov/uas/model_aircraft/

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by leesalminen on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:40PM (#9925625)

The same goes for bicycles being used on roadways. No education, licensing, etc (at least in the U.S.).

Do any countries have licensing for biclysists?

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by bargl on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @04:49PM (#9925698)

You can't compare the regulations/education on cars to those on airplanes, just like you can't compare the regulations/education on bikes to drones.

Airspace is not a road way, it can't be compared to one.

I'm specifically talking about the USA (Hence FAA regulations) but this does affect every country.

Edit: added /education

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by craig131 on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @06:34PM (#9926353)

It's funny that you say that now after agreeing with, and adding to the comparison of drones = cars and planes = bicycles. Now when someone flips the comparison, equating drones to bicycles, the comparison is apples to oranges?

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Re:Lufthansa flight has near-miss with drone near Warsaw by bargl on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @10:06AM (#9929694)

He was comparing the anonymity and risk factors.

You were looking at regulations, which doesn't really work. Drones/Airplanes and Bikes/Cars are two different beasts. If you wanted a real comparison, look at driving an automated empty car on the road and a car on the road. That would be an apt comparison.

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