HorizonMass reports on a company gloating about its FAA approval without really specifying just why it wants to have drones zipping and hovering right over your head, although a month or so ago, it announced it had successfully finished using drones to deliver medications in a pilot with Mass. General, but in a city and state with few guardrails on what surveillance-eager authorities could also use them for.
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Deliver medications _in a pilot_
By anon
Tue, 01/28/2025 - 4:40pm
Drones don't have pilots. Duh.
English is a fascinating language
By adamg
Tue, 01/28/2025 - 8:25pm
And sometimes words have more than one meaning.
The FAA is important...but
By _Sean
Tue, 01/28/2025 - 4:58pm
The FAA is important...but how did this not require local approval? Ignoring the (huge) privacy risks in allowing drones to follow people & vehicles around Boston for a moment, what happens when someone gets hurt or killed by one of these drones?
Also, how is this not the equivalent of DOT decreeing that all semi trucks can now go 50mph anywhere in Boston (ignoring all speed limits)?
If I swoop one
By anon
Tue, 01/28/2025 - 5:00pm
into a big butterfly net, can I keep it?
Isn't this a hazard to Logan Airport traffic?
By Ron Newman
Tue, 01/28/2025 - 6:05pm
How do you allow unrestricted drone flights and not interfere with planes landing and taking off at Logan?
No. Just no.
By Brent Jeffries
Tue, 01/28/2025 - 6:30pm
No. Just no.
BRING BACK UPVOTES
By John Costello
Tue, 01/28/2025 - 8:04pm
This a 100 times.
another reason
By anon
Tue, 01/28/2025 - 7:07pm
to keep a baseball bat within reach
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