Unrelated to anything in the article, but I know commercially available drones are programmed to shut down when entering restricted airspace. I wonder if they're programmed to shut down close to any sort of civilian stuff like a large crowd, or a place someone would want to keep private?

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 36 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Something that just popped in my head for no reason is that most decent quadcopters broadcast the gps coordinates of the person operating them.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

that explains how the cops came straight to my house when i was flying my drone over the richy-rich neighbor houses

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta go diy.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 1 points 10 hours ago

guess so, but i have no skills