Interesting that in a thread about emerging technology that many posters do not even get the termonology right. FPV is flying a airframe from a the perspective of the arframe. The airframe could be any airpllane, or any helicopter (for AMA there are weight/speed limits). Multirotors are just ONE KIND or airframe that can optionally use FPV.

Autonomous flight may be used on a FPV airframe but it has nothing to do with the FPV system.
Multirotors may use FPV and autonomous flight but they are not required to fly multirotors.

On one of my giant scale planes I use a EagleTree Guardian unit (three axis gyro stabilization and a artificial horizon) is that a "emerging technology" to ban because simular systems can be used by multirotors? If I wanted to, I could add GPS waypoint flight to it and nobody here would without examining the electronics even know it was there. You would just see a giant scale plane flying some very precise patterns uneffected by any wind.

I get the impression that much of the angst is "they are not nitro powered CUB (kits) that fly the pattern"

Of course the AMA is correct to embrace FPV and autonomous flight as well as they were correct to embrace Lipo batteries and 2.4G radios over many of the same objections seen in this thread. There were actually ignorant AMA clubs that banned Lipos and 2.4G when they first came out.

This is actually a subject that LCS and I are in agreement on.

Brad