Nameless Range
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There's also an aspect of what a PITA this could be to uphold.
A game I play with folks in the field who I work with is:
(A) How high do you think the drone is right now?
(B) Tell me when you think the drone is directly overhead.
Both are pretty dang hard for even the seasoned pilot to get right. So, I could imagine someone seeing a drone at 180 ft and feeling certain it is over their property and it not being so, and there would be no way to retroactively prove it. Also, the 200ft floor here doesn't gain one much privacy at all. Someone could gander upon your empire obliquely pretty easily and in fact more effectively. The sensors get more wacky every day and the difference between what someone can see at 40ft vs what they could see at 201 isn't really that meaningful. They'd still have resolutions of sub-inch in many cases.
I get the desire for privacy. Recently, more and more stories have popped up of drones being used successfully by SAR, LEOs, SA for Emergency Response - nearly all of which will happen to some degree over private property. I know that isn't really the crux of the bill, which as others have pointed out is likely unconstitutional.
Again, most regular folks absolutely would see this as a sensible bill. Drones can feel incredibly intrusive, and in many situations are.
A game I play with folks in the field who I work with is:
(A) How high do you think the drone is right now?
(B) Tell me when you think the drone is directly overhead.
Both are pretty dang hard for even the seasoned pilot to get right. So, I could imagine someone seeing a drone at 180 ft and feeling certain it is over their property and it not being so, and there would be no way to retroactively prove it. Also, the 200ft floor here doesn't gain one much privacy at all. Someone could gander upon your empire obliquely pretty easily and in fact more effectively. The sensors get more wacky every day and the difference between what someone can see at 40ft vs what they could see at 201 isn't really that meaningful. They'd still have resolutions of sub-inch in many cases.
I get the desire for privacy. Recently, more and more stories have popped up of drones being used successfully by SAR, LEOs, SA for Emergency Response - nearly all of which will happen to some degree over private property. I know that isn't really the crux of the bill, which as others have pointed out is likely unconstitutional.
Again, most regular folks absolutely would see this as a sensible bill. Drones can feel incredibly intrusive, and in many situations are.
