(03-10-2024, 03:41 AM)Infolurker Wrote: This is the future of Policing in America.
As far as I know, police employment of drones against civilians is still illegal in Virginia. The next county over bought one several years ago, and has never been able to fly it because of state law making that illegal.
They're also a bit worried that some good ol' boy will shoot down their investment with a deer rifle if they ever tried to fly it. We've got some pretty good shots around here.
I've got 4 drones, but have never been able to keep one in the air more than about 27 seconds. Then they crash on their own. During that 27 seconds, I've also never been able to get one to fly in the direction I wanted it to fly. The reason I have 4 is because I kept thinking "maybe the next one will fly right"... but they never did, and now they sit here collecting dust. One of them has never even gotten off the ground - it requires some program to be installed on a "smart" phone to control it, and for a variety of reasons I'm not going to do that, so I have no idea if that one would have been the one to fly right or not.
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