Drones: coming to a sky near you.

[zzzz]

It appears that the FAA will have to lay down groundwork for allowing drones to fly in US airspace. Not only will police use rise but private companies maybe allowed to fly drones to do aerial mapping and maybe surveillance. Need to know what the wife or husband is doing, have a PI use his drone to follow them, although a GPS tag under the bumper would be cheaper, with the drone you have video and possibly audio. So if you are laying out in your backyard, ladies, and you take that top off for a little tan someone may be watching you. And they do not even need a warrant!

Within a few years, that flying object overhead might not be a bird or a plane, but an unmanned aircraft.

Drones, perhaps best known for their combat missions in Afghanistan, are increasingly looking to share room in U.S. skies with passenger planes. And that's prompting safety concerns.
Right now, remote-controlled drones are used in the U.S. mostly by the military and Customs and Border Patrol in restricted airspace.

Now, organizations from police forces searching for missing persons to academic researchers counting seals on the polar ice cap is eager to launch drones weighing a few pounds to some the size of a jetliner in the same airspace as passenger planes.
On Monday, the Senate sent to President Obama legislation that would require the Federal Aviation Administration to devise ways for that to happen safely in three years.

FAA told to make room for drones in U.S. skies

On another front, farm tractors are starting to be turned into drones.

What Roomba has done for vacuums, Kinze Manufacturing hopes to do with tractors.

Last month the 46-year-old farm implement company demonstrated to dealers its new "autonomy" system developed with Jaybridge Robotics of Cambridge, Mass., which uses guidance communications systems to allow tractors to run without human operators.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/news/...a-firm-develops-autonomous-tractor/50179858/1

I can just see a drone tractor going wild. Some of them are bigger than a semi now!!

 

[editec]

The automation and mechanization of the growing police state is inevitable.

Drones will merely be the most visible aspect of that.

Why?

Because while MASTERS are inevitably going to be screwing every increasing percentages of the population, as increasingly human labor becomes less and less economically viable in this brave new world order, it will be harder and harder for the masters to really trust other working class human beings (read cops and military personel) to repress the mass to maintain order.

Robo-cop isn't going to be just science fiction much longer kiddies.

 

[rightwinger]

There is a camera everywhere you go now anyway

 

[Papageorgio]

Yep, we are so worried about which party is to blame for the conditions today, that we don't see that both parties have the same agenda.

 

[1_Old_Man]

I think its about time we stopped using the Department of Defense to arm local police departments.