Drones. Are. Dangerous. Always.
Pandora’s Box has been opened, and even the most ardent drone users and those who support them will eventually realize how wrong they are.
Remember the recent (Dec. 22, 2015) incident in which the world’s best downhill skier almost got hit by a 22-pound camera drone operated by a newsman that fell out of the sk ust behind the skier? (It apparently fell because of radio interference.) It is terrifying to think what could easily have happened to that skier had that drone either fallen right in front of him or actually hit him. It missed him by inches! Remember -- he was going more than 90 mph at the time the drone fell near him, and that drone was being operated by a supposedly responsible person.
There is absolutely no justification for using these things anywhere -- except in rare circumstances -- and even then they are dangerous. Getting news out is not, and will never be, one of those rare circumstances. And Jeff Bezos and Google’s top execs and everyone else who uses or wants to use these very dangerous things should be ashamed of themselves for putting making lots of money or having fun ahead of caring intensely about everyone’s safety.