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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The world of UAVs is here. I just wonder how long before the first person is walking at a park and gets killed by a UAV from some moron. It is going to happen.
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I've been around some rather large ones being flown on the beach where I live... being flown by idiots that is.. and have been quite terrified. One guy had one that looked sorta like a hybrid of a drone and an RC helicopter, it was electric and looked to have carbon fiber blades with a span of about 3 feet. No guard around the blades. He was flying it up and down the Hermosa Beach Strand at what had to be 30 or 40+ MPH. This sucker was fast as hell, and he was barrel rolling it and flipping it and such end over end- I was walking out to the beach with my girlfriend and saw this and actually said to her "lets avoid that, and walk around" ... because I saw how fast and loose this idiot was flying this thing near the walk and all it would take would be a poor judgement with the controls and the blades of that sucker would cut deep into your head/neck/etc.
I've seen similar situations out on the beach with drones flying fast and low by kids playing and such and just think it's ridiculous. These are big 'toys' that could get out of control seriously fast and when in a crowd of people will really, really hurt someone. It's not like throwing a football around on the sand... it's a hunk of carbon and metal dropping out of the sky at however fast Newton lets it.....