View Full Version : Are you a good drone, or a bad drone?


Warren Kawamoto
March 21st, 2014, 08:59 AM
This drone can hack your phone - Video - Technology (http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/03/19/t-drone-steals-phone-info.cnnmoney/index.html?iid=obnetwork)

Commercial drones start test flights - Video - Technology (http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/02/11/t-north-dakota-drones-aerospace.cnnmoney/index.html?iid=V_Taboola)

Finn Yarbrough
March 21st, 2014, 09:51 AM
I think that "drone" is a sensational and silly word to apply to small RC craft, even if they do carry some semi-autonomous programming. I move to change the common parlance from "drone" back to "remote-controlled," in order to separate this:
http://blog.flying-hobby.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/dji_phantom.jpg

from this: http://dronewarsuk.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/predator-firing-missile4.jpg

Brian Drysdale
March 21st, 2014, 11:12 AM
Unfortunately the size range for unmanned aerial vehicles covers everything from the very small to the something the size of a jet fighter. The only thing that seems to differentiate between a model aircraft and what is termed an unmanned aerial vehicle is the purpose.