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Informative Article: Future Drone Applications

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Well written article with a lousy title by Gizmodo regarding the future of drones. Lots of quotes from DJI.

Can Drones Be Good?

Spoiler alert: the future is in applications for commerce and industry: inspections, farming, disaster relief, search and rescue, law enforcement. Drones are starting to perform some real work that humans alone can't get done.

It looks like consumer drones are just a hobby for DJI as well -- their future big money is in commercial drones. But all those drones will still need pilots ;)
 
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Well written article with a lousy title by Gizmodo regarding the future of drones. Lots of quotes from DJI.

Can Drones Be Good?

Spoiler alert: the future is in applications for commerce and industry: inspections, farming, disaster relief, search and rescue, law enforcement. Drones are starting to perform some real work that humans alone can't get done.

It looks like consumer drones are just a hobby for DJI as well -- their future big money is in commercial drones. But all those drones will still need pilots ;)
Seems like all of these applications are currently employed. It may be that the future will simply be more numbers of commercial flights.

What I hope not to see is what happened with the Segway vehicle. It was designed to be an urban transport, but was outlawed for fear of pedestrian accidents, and then municipal police forces adopted them. WTF?

If the hobbyist gets squeezed out of the airspace by commercial application, then we will be relegated to the boonies, only.
 
Seems like all of these applications are currently employed. It may be that the future will simply be more numbers of commercial flights.

What I hope not to see is what happened with the Segway vehicle. It was designed to be an urban transport, but was outlawed for fear of pedestrian accidents, and then municipal police forces adopted them. WTF?

If the hobbyist gets squeezed out of the airspace by commercial application, then we will be relegated to the boonies, only.

Exactly. All these applications have had test programs but none widely deployed.

Exactly. Public perception of drones is overwhelmingly negative.

Exactly. The airspace is too valuable to commercial entities to allow hobbyists to use it for fun.
 
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