DJI voluntarily created its geofencing feature, so it makes a certain degree of sense that the company would get rid of it now that the US government no longer seems to appreciate its help, is blocking some of its drone imports, calls DJI a “Chinese Military Company,” and has started the countdown clock on a de facto import ban.
That sounds exactly like how Trump does business, tit for tat and quid pro quos… thats also why Zuck is acting out - gonna be a wild 4 years
You mispelled depressing. For some reason you spelled it as “wild”.
He also mispelled forever. For some reason he spelled it as “4 years”.
Well the next 4 years are part of forever
Joking about this is part of how it slowly gains acceptance. Let’s just not
4 years
So, just like how pretty much every other drone manufacturers drones already work. Somehow people only give DJI shit over this and develop a curious blind spot about everybody else.
It is trivially easy for anyone with thumbs to kit-build a drone with no regulatory compliance whatsoever, in nearly any size, with absurd range and capabilities, for just a few hundred dollars. Despite that state of affairs having been the case for years, this has mysteriously failed to cause the Earth to fall out of its orbit into the sun.
IDK, most of the kits require soldering (because the industry is fundamentally braindead) and if you go look at the various online communities, you’ll quickly see that this is one hell of a filter.
We were taught that at high school…
Same here, but I’d still be pretty annoyed if I had to do it to put together a drone, it’s a pain in the ass.
Soldering is so easy.
Yhe worst part of soldering is losing your soldering iron every 7 years between the times you need it.
One of my many hobbies is electronics and messing with electronic instruments so I use mine fairly often.
I find it interesting more than anything else.
In high school electronics we also used a tesla coil (that can kill you if you touch the wrong place) so they disconnected the mains cord so it had to be rewired prior to use to keep us safer.
They taught us how to wire plugs the following week…
You got taught how to rewire a plug in high school?
Yup. Was told clearly at the start to not plug it in to the wall sockets located just underneath us.
-
so what if no other manufacturers do it? Maybe they should be forced to.
-
the hyperbole at the end of your comment is not necessary or helpful. We literally just saw a drone ground a firefighting plane in Los Angeles, so we know they can cause major problems at the worst possible times. Maybe it’s not a big deal on an everyday basis, but in disasters like the Los Angeles Fires of course more idiot content creators than usual are going to have their drone in the air collecting footage.
-
more and more people are getting drones so there are only going to be more and more problems as they grow in popularity.
-
I kinda hate this. What I’d really like is the option to turn it on or off. I live near an airport airspace boundary and it’s nice to have that wall keeping me from straying into airspace I’m not authorized for, but at the same time, sometimes the drone freezes and won’t come back, so it’d be great to be able to get full control back temporarily.
Their reasoning is to give responsibility back to the pilot. A responsible pilot might want that guard rail. Having it as an option only makes sense.
DJI probably wants to avoid lawsuits. I can imagine anyone caught flying in these zones can blame their software.
Yeah, and doesn’t want to pay people to maintain that feature. It makes sense for them. Still, that feature and their maps were awesome. I hope they don’t stop updating their maps that show the boundaries because IMHo they’re better than anything else, though I think they may not meet FAA requirements. All the FAA maps I’ve seen look so primitive and have seemingly contradictory information.
As a pilot…the real faa maps take training to read, but they are quite accurate. But maybe they publish something useless and contradictory for drone operators.
At the same time, I do other this to simply blocking all flight near airports.
Years ago I got clearance to fly for an event near an airport but the fucking drone refused to fly.
You know, they’ve been dropping a lot of ordinance with cobbled together drones in Ukraine. Just sayin, for no reason in particular reason.
I don’t see how this could go wrong…
Replace the plastic blades with sharpened metal ones, and you got yourself an anti-personnel terrorism machine.
This is a weird response to the drone hysteria in New Jersey.
also as if the drone hysteria was just right wing clownery
It was a distraction from Luigi.
Lol
DJI pilots are either very skilled professionals or inconsiderate wannabe photographers. Freestyle quad pilots rule.
Yeah the FPV community is way better because they actually have to know what they’re doing mostly. They’re mildly noncompliant but only regarding the regs that shouldn’t apply to the size of stuff they fly; RID, registration, and BVLOS don’t make sense for airframes lighter than a goose. They tend to avoid other people because they understand the public is wary of drones and they’re wary of Karens and untrained cops. They put far more hours on their airframes than any of the other amateur operators but every single time I’ve been near a drone doing something dangerous, stupid, or annoying it was a DJI.
Yup. Of course there are some risky fpv pilots but it’s always a DJI user, I won’t even call them pilot, that’s doing something stupid and/or dangerous and ends up on the news.
DJI is some kind of drone company, no idea what the acronym stands for but idgaf.
