DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, and the White House
DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, and the White House
DJI claims the decision “aligns” with the FAA’s rules.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/52638736
DJI voluntarily created its geofencing feature, so it makes a certain degree of sense that the company would get rid of it now that the US government no longer seems to appreciate its help, is blocking some of its drone imports, calls DJI a “Chinese Military Company,” and has started the countdown clock on a de facto import ban.
That sounds exactly like how Trump does business, tit for tat and quid pro quos.. thats also why Zuck is acting out - gonna be a wild 4 years
They were about the only hobbyist level drone manufacturer that was doing any sort of geofencing at all. Unsurprising they stopped when none of the other companies saw repercussions for not doing it.
They're the only hobbyist manufacturer with any scale. If you look at the Dedrone stats it's just entirely the DJI show followed by AUTEL by a mile and then DIY stuff. The DIY drones can be built from anything and can be trivially designed to avoid surveillance so you're not gonna get anywhere with them anyway.
So, just like how pretty much every other drone manufacturers drones already work. Somehow people only give DJI shit over this and develop a curious blind spot about everybody else.
It is trivially easy for anyone with thumbs to kit-build a drone with no regulatory compliance whatsoever, in nearly any size, with absurd range and capabilities, for just a few hundred dollars. Despite that state of affairs having been the case for years, this has mysteriously failed to cause the Earth to fall out of its orbit into the sun.
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so what if no other manufacturers do it? Maybe they should be forced to.
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the hyperbole at the end of your comment is not necessary or helpful. We literally just saw a drone ground a firefighting plane in Los Angeles, so we know they can cause major problems at the worst possible times. Maybe it's not a big deal on an everyday basis, but in disasters like the Los Angeles Fires of course more idiot content creators than usual are going to have their drone in the air collecting footage.
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more and more people are getting drones so there are only going to be more and more problems as they grow in popularity.
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I kinda hate this. What I'd really like is the option to turn it on or off. I live near an airport airspace boundary and it's nice to have that wall keeping me from straying into airspace I'm not authorized for, but at the same time, sometimes the drone freezes and won't come back, so it'd be great to be able to get full control back temporarily.
Their reasoning is to give responsibility back to the pilot. A responsible pilot might want that guard rail. Having it as an option only makes sense.
DJI probably wants to avoid lawsuits. I can imagine anyone caught flying in these zones can blame their software.
Yeah, and doesn't want to pay people to maintain that feature. It makes sense for them. Still, that feature and their maps were awesome. I hope they don't stop updating their maps that show the boundaries because IMHo they're better than anything else, though I think they may not meet FAA requirements. All the FAA maps I've seen look so primitive and have seemingly contradictory information.
At the same time, I do other this to simply blocking all flight near airports.
Years ago I got clearance to fly for an event near an airport but the fucking drone refused to fly.
I don’t see how this could go wrong…
Replace the plastic blades with sharpened metal ones, and you got yourself an anti-personnel terrorism machine.
So is a riding lawn mower. Or a car. The sun can kill you. As can weak ventilation. You could be bitten by a spider, or poisoned by bad food. An aneurysm could take you any second. Death haunts you every day and night, and there is never a guarantee that you'll wake up any time you rest your eyes.
But sure, drones are the threat.
“We’re looking to expand into the terrorist market. We see it as a growth industry given the mounting civil unrest all over the world.”
This is a weird response to the drone hysteria in New Jersey.
also as if the drone hysteria was just right wing clownery
It was a distraction from Luigi.
DJI pilots are either very skilled professionals or inconsiderate wannabe photographers. Freestyle quad pilots rule.
Yeah the FPV community is way better because they actually have to know what they're doing mostly. They're mildly noncompliant but only regarding the regs that shouldn't apply to the size of stuff they fly; RID, registration, and BVLOS don't make sense for airframes lighter than a goose. They tend to avoid other people because they understand the public is wary of drones and they're wary of Karens and untrained cops. They put far more hours on their airframes than any of the other amateur operators but every single time I've been near a drone doing something dangerous, stupid, or annoying it was a DJI.
Yup. Of course there are some risky fpv pilots but it’s always a DJI user, I won’t even call them pilot, that’s doing something stupid and/or dangerous and ends up on the news.
Lol
DJI is some kind of drone company, no idea what the acronym stands for but idgaf.
