A future with drones?

[UbiBird]

As someone who is creating a service that requires the use of drones, I find myself creating a future that makes drones ubiquitous. I'm not sure if its just me living in fantasy land or a drone geek that really wants this to be a part of our daily lives. Sanity check?

 

[Altsickeness]

As someone who is creating a service that requires the use of drones, I find myself creating a future that makes drones ubiquitous. I'm not sure if its just me living in fantasy land or a drone geek that really wants this to be a part of our daily lives. Sanity check?

Okay, I'll bite. When you say ubiquitous as in everywhere and present, how much do you want them in our lives.?Tech for years and years has overwhelmingly been designed to make our lives easier, faster, to allow for more leisure. To what degree do you see them serving us? Does it at all give you pause, to consider that tech could become detrimental to our health, as we become lazy, overfed fat asses that have robots doing everything for us, while Google does all of our thinking?

 

[Wildwelder]

Its my opinion that "drones" are going to play a huge role in our future. Its becoming more apparent every day. From entertainment, business, military, you name it, they're here to stay. If I was starting out all over again today, I'd definitely choose a career in them. Thing is, theyre a bit ahead of their time, as the faa has its hands full just trying to comprehend and litigate just how awesome this presence is. Good luck with your business dreams Ubibird. I dont think you're ideas are too fantastic at all.

 

[rosco11]

Drones will be used for many things, like surveillance, traffic reports and a host of things that used to involve a person. So yea, more jobs lost to automation.

But, people will not be flying them. Computers will. Other than amusement, learning how to fly one will be obsolete before they really even take off.

Even if they are used for transportation, the entire process will be automated. No way in hell would they allow some minimum wage idiot drive people around with something with four spinning blades around other people.

What we are doing now is setting the stage for companies to put more human beings out of work. cheers.

 

[Wildwelder]

The minimun wage "idiots" are flying American drones in combat right now, only they're much deadlier. Probably not even old enough to drink. Poor choice of words friend. Now I know our military isn't paid minimum wage but I get your meaning.All It takes is a bright mind and a joystick to wage war now, not a college degree. Cheers.

 

[rosco11]

The minimun wage "idiots" are flying American drones in combat right now, only they're much deadlier. Probably not even old enough to drink. Poor choice of words friend. Now I know our military isn't paid minimum wage but I get your meaning.All It takes is a bright mind and a joystick to wage war now, not a college degree. Cheers.

No one is going to sue them when they accidentally run one into a non-combatant. Not going to happen in a civilian setting.

 

[Wildwelder]

Glad the wright brothers didnt have your mindset.

 

[rosco11]

Don't get me wrong, i am all for the advancement of the tech in whatever fashion it manifests itself. Perfect example, the Segway.

The Wright brothers did not have to deal with congested areas and personal property damage. Back then, you could fly across the country and never fly over someone's home or major highway packed with carts. Get it? Carts instead of cars? Being time relevant. You are talking about putting a couple pounds of material over the heads of lots of people at heights that could kill someone if the battery died/malfunctioned, if you lost a motor/esc/fc, if you lost radio communications. Then their is mall intent. Some bent teen intentionally crashing into people for the kicks and no way to trace it back to an individual.

This is not even considering what a quad would do to a jet engine if it was ingested. Birds can take out an engine and they are soft hollow bones, flesh and feathers. Quads are carbon fiber with bits of metal attached. And again, the possibility of untraceable malfeasance.

Road rage? well, i will just cut off your legs with my quad bike. A pedestrian steps in front of a car and gets banged up. Step in front of a hover quad and you are missing body parts and bleeding out before help gets there.

Too much liability for the insignificant gain in quality of life. Electric cars will nix quad crafts. Now quad cruises, quad boats, now you are talking. Could go island hopping without worrying about the water conditions. God help the jet skier who gets too close.

Fascinating tech with practical applications. But i wouldn't go mortgaging your home to start a quad business. Right now, the Chinese own the market and will for the near future. The average shelf life of a new motor/fc/esc/firmwear is 30 to 60 days before it is old news and selling for the cost of shipping. No money means no big push for advancing the tech or applications in this country.

Liability will severely restrict potential development as well. For good reason.

it is a hobby. Enjoy it and don't go betting the farm on a big future the Chinese will gut you of profits for in less time than it took you to write the code.

Home built hover water craft. Think about it. Will suck to fish from though. Especially if you are trolling.

 

[Wildwelder]

Well never would I think we'd be riding death machines around. My point was that "drones" in their present form, will have a huge future not in transportation but for so much else; mostly data gathering in so many forms! Look at where we are now. We use drones for anything from fighting forest fires to inspecting hard to reach equipment to making movies. Imagine ten years from now. Its my opinion that drones are the future. But fishing from one?? Lol no.

 

[UbiBird]

Okay, I'll bite. When you say ubiquitous as in everywhere and present, how much do you want them in our lives.?Tech for years and years has overwhelmingly been designed to make our lives easier, faster, to allow for more leisure. To what degree do you see them serving us? Does it at all give you pause, to consider that tech could become detrimental to our health, as we become lazy, overfed fat asses that have robots doing everything for us, while Google does all of our thinking?

"as we become" we already have my friend but in all seriousness, with how cost effective that drones can be, I can picture a time where you can't even be outside of your home for 10 minutes without seeing one. Whether it be drone delivery, streaming information (like traffic), and dare I say "big brother"

 

[UbiBird]

Its my opinion that "drones" are going to play a huge role in our future. Its becoming more apparent every day. From entertainment, business, military, you name it, they're here to stay. If I was starting out all over again today, I'd definitely choose a career in them. Thing is, theyre a bit ahead of their time, as the faa has its hands full just trying to comprehend and litigate just how awesome this presence is. Good luck with your business dreams Ubibird. I dont think you're ideas are too fantastic at all.

You sir, need to be a drone-motivational speaker. You see it. I imagine it similar to howBill Gates envisioned the computer when it was an emerging technology. Everyone said that they would "never" be something used for daily use....and yet here we are folks.

 

[UbiBird]

Drones will be used for many things, like surveillance, traffic reports and a host of things that used to involve a person. So yea, more jobs lost to automation.

But, people will not be flying them. Computers will. Other than amusement, learning how to fly one will be obsolete before they really even take off.

Even if they are used for transportation, the entire process will be automated. No way in hell would they allow some minimum wage idiot drive people around with something with four spinning blades around other people.

What we are doing now is setting the stage for companies to put more human beings out of work. cheers.

Man, this is a pessimistic post (or perhaps you're a realist). I do agree that automation will probably play a role, yes, but it can also create jobs for people who need to manage, repair, or oversee them. Will it create more jobs than it will remove? I can't answer that my friend.

 

[UbiBird]

Don't get me wrong, i am all for the advancement of the tech in whatever fashion it manifests itself. Perfect example, the Segway.

The Wright brothers did not have to deal with congested areas and personal property damage. Back then, you could fly across the country and never fly over someone's home or major highway packed with carts. Get it? Carts instead of cars? Being time relevant. You are talking about putting a couple pounds of material over the heads of lots of people at heights that could kill someone if the battery died/malfunctioned, if you lost a motor/esc/fc, if you lost radio communications. Then their is mall intent. Some bent teen intentionally crashing into people for the kicks and no way to trace it back to an individual.

This is not even considering what a quad would do to a jet engine if it was ingested. Birds can take out an engine and they are soft hollow bones, flesh and feathers. Quads are carbon fiber with bits of metal attached. And again, the possibility of untraceable malfeasance.

Road rage? well, i will just cut off your legs with my quad bike. A pedestrian steps in front of a car and gets banged up. Step in front of a hover quad and you are missing body parts and bleeding out before help gets there.

Too much liability for the insignificant gain in quality of life. Electric cars will nix quad crafts. Now quad cruises, quad boats, now you are talking. Could go island hopping without worrying about the water conditions. God help the jet skier who gets too close.

Fascinating tech with practical applications. But i wouldn't go mortgaging your home to start a quad business. Right now, the Chinese own the market and will for the near future. The average shelf life of a new motor/fc/esc/firmwear is 30 to 60 days before it is old news and selling for the cost of shipping. No money means no big push for advancing the tech or applications in this country.

Liability will severely restrict potential development as well. For good reason.

it is a hobby. Enjoy it and don't go betting the farm on a big future the Chinese will gut you of profits for in less time than it took you to write the code.

Home built hover water craft. Think about it. Will suck to fish from though. Especially if you are trolling.

You should write a book about what the future will be like with drones. I do agree with everything you have said in the sense that it could happen. If we looked at all of the negatives that could happen we would kill the possibilities of so many great things! My goal here Rosco, is to get you see the light! or sip the cool-aid, which ever one works for you!

 

[anthnson1]

In my opinion, drone play a significant role in future. Drones aren't changing new wars drastically, but they could reshape the aerial battlefields of the future. Drone are improving day by day, and they set an example for others.

 

[Altsickeness]

"as we become" we already have my friend but in all seriousness, with how cost effective that drones can be, I can picture a time where you can't even be outside of your home for 10 minutes without seeing one. Whether it be drone delivery, streaming information (like traffic), and dare I say "big brother"

IT will be interesting to watch the design tech to take down drones flying all ever hell. Racers can rob delivery drones. They could make a whole movie about it. Call it " Flying Fast and Furious". Maybe they can get Vin Diesel to play the drone repair Tech by day and the Drone bandit at night as a leader of illegal drone racer club/ drone robber gang that robs Amazon Delivery drones. Then Amazon hires an ex- combat personal security drone company to escort their shipments and then we see the reintroduction of old fashioned aerial dogfighting as the security company headed by the "Rock " takes on Vin Diesel's gang.. that is until they jion forces to beat an even bigger drone threat to world.

 

[UbiBird]

IT will be interesting to watch the design tech to take down drones flying all ever hell. Racers can rob delivery drones. They could make a whole movie about it. Call it " Flying Fast and Furious". Maybe they can get Vin Diesel to play the drone repair Tech by day and the Drone bandit at night as a leader of illegal drone racer club/ drone robber gang that robs Amazon Delivery drones. Then Amazon hires an ex- combat personal security drone company to escort their shipments and then we see the reintroduction of old fashioned aerial dogfighting as the security company headed by the "Rock " takes on Vin Diesel's gang.. that is until they jion forces to beat an even bigger drone threat to world.

Hmm..is Hollywood calling you my friend?