If a 3lb drone is not dangerous. does that mean you are ok with one flying top speed into the face of your child??? Or dropping out of the sky on to someone? or flying in the path of a a water tanker trying to drop water on a forest fire?
Why do "you people" always cite situations that have happened < 10 times in the entire WORLD history of the Radio Control flying?? (Which has been around since the '70s!).. ANYBODY can play the "what if" game. Let's say you and I man up and play the "actual data" game? I like that game much better. I'll start.
Q1: How many RC vehicles have been sold/built world wide?
Q2: How many babies faces have been flown into world wide?
Q3: How many drones have landed on people's heads world wide?
Q4: How many $$$ in damage (which you may notate in millions) have accumulated due to full scale aviation accidents?
Q5: How many lives (which you may notate in THOUSANDS) have been lost due to full scale aviation accidents?
What say we make drone regulation proportionate to the damage, carnage and death they cause??? We can use full scale aviation as a benchmark.
Let's up the ante.
Here's a list of UNREGULATED items that have killed more people than drones have:
Hammers
Bathtubs
Kitchen knives
Stairs
Garden Hoes
Shall I go on? Because I can. The list is very long.
What say we make drone regulation on par with bathtubs? Bath tubs kill 10x more people annually than drones. So, to be fair, drone regulation should be 1/10th that of bath tubs.
How come nobody talks about the POTENTIAL mortality rates for bathtubs? "Look how slippery they are! People could die!!"
How come nobody makes "what if" arguments against bath tubs? How come - based on high mortality rates, carnage, and property damage - are airplanes and helicopters allowed to fly at all? Boggles the mind, doesn't it???
Hopefully, you get my point. If drone regulations were distributed proportionately based on damage, death and carnage (on par with garden hoes, bathtubs and full scale aviation), there would be ZERO drone regulation.
Bottom line: Of everything I've listed here today, drones are BY FAR the safest item on that list....BY FAR.
Conclusion: Drone regulation is based on the damage they MIGHT cause. NOT the damage they DO cause.
Good day, sir. And happy Memorial Day.
D