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Originally Posted by photon
It isn't just lethal dangers, it wasn't a huge drone that cost that kid his eye.
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If I was bored I would go and pull statistics of hospital ER visits and show you that basically every popular toy or sport has caused some pretty horrific accidents, regardless of its nature.
Believing this activity should or could be without potential for accident is impossible. It is no more or less dangerous than it could be, accidents will happen regardless of regulation.
Think of all the injuries, fatalities, brain injuries that come a long with riding a bike. It is an insanely dangerous activity for children, yet, we do not have licenses for children, or a training exam that parents are required to pass, yet here we are, surviving in a state with rogue bike operators out to get themselves killed. (Seriously, the statistics on bike injuries are horrific, but I digress).
"Drones" (like pipelines or oilsands) are the media's "hot" whipping boys right now. Its easy to hate on them when you have a limited understanding of the activity. For a frame of reference, as someone in the hobby, when people call them "drones", it is the exact same thing as people calling them "tar sands" to someone who is in the oil patch. Sure, it is not totally untrue term for them, but it is clearly exploiting an inherent bias in your emotions (tar is dirty, and drones murder people in Middle east).