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The first global drone standards have been revealed
As drone use grows, rules and regulations remain in flux and vary among jurisdictions. Last month, for instance, the Federal Aviation Administration granted operators of certain drones approval to fly them in controlled airspace in the US, but the UK has an outright ban on using them within a kilometer of airports. To help establish best practices, the International Organization for Standardization has released the first draft set of global standards for drone use.
The draft does suggest no-fly zones around airports and other restricted areas, along with geofencing measures to keep drones away from sensitive locations. The standards also call for drone operators to respect others' privacy and a human intervention fail-safe for all flights. The ISO additionally suggested that training, flight logging and maintenance requirements should be in place, along with data protection rules.
[...] The draft set of standards was released just as the UK's air safety board said about half of air traffic incidents are drone-related. More sets of ISO drone standards will follow, which will cover technical specs, traffic control, and manufacturing quality.
(Score: 2) by qzm on Thursday November 29 2018, @09:48AM (2 children)
By the way, if you want to see how open and transparent the current DJI geofencing maps are, its easy, you can have a look here:
https://www.dji.com/flysafe/geo-map [dji.com]
Thats a fresh link from their own site, so if you hit any problems, I'm sure it is only temporary.. really.
I'm not quite sure what your 'building a drone' point is - I have little doubt they will make use of a non-geofenced drone illegal soon enough - with the support of DJI no doubt (have to love regulatory capture).
And you are also wrong, building a gun is not particularly harder than building a drone - somewhat easier in fact I would say.
Building a car isnt that difficult either, although there is a fair bit more to it... I dont see the relevance though.
Are you perhaps trying to point out how stupid such laws are because anyone wilfully criminal will just build a drone anyway, so there is no point in them?
(Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday November 29 2018, @04:10PM
You might be right about this up until it comes to making a receiver for that gun in the US. If you have a receiver you can just screw the rest of the commercially made and available gun parts onto that receiver. The receiver is not commercially available and the best you'll legally get is a plate that needs to have holes drilled (easy) and then run through a sheet metal press to form it (not easy).
The part that I can think of that would be the gun receiver in a drone would be the controller. Lots of cheap modern microcontrollers can handle the load of computation but putting together a kalman filter for sensor fusion is tricky.
Drilling and bending sheet metal might be easier than making a kalman filter. It really depends on what your experiences are.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 29 2018, @09:25PM
Sorta. Replace 'criminal' with 'disobedient' (it was you that brought the authoritarianism into the picture) - the moment a good amount of people are doing it, it transcends criminality.
Now, about 'how easy' those "many enough of them" can do it - I doubt that many would build their "car the govt can't disable" or disable the "kill switch" (and still have the car functional). By contrast, a drone which ignores geofencing can be build inside one's bedroom. cheap enough and without expensive equipment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford