It's not an FPV thing.

It's a change in society.

A recap of the past five years:

The hobby has a new renaissance, with thousands of new modellers jointing the fray with cheaper electronics and a new, enormous resource called the internet.

Crashes happen, but most of these new hobbyists are flying small foam models that weight about a pound - much less limiting (and dangerous in the wrong hands) than the 0.40 sized trainer of five years earlier.

The traditional hobbyists press on, as they have for 60 years, cutting balsa capstrips and flying at the club they have been a part of for decades. This is well suited for their tastes in larger gas or glow models, but not necessary for the park flyers that explode on the scene.

As a result, the two groups - The glow/ gas/ balsa/ clubfield educated guys, and the electric/ foam/ FPV/ internet educated guys - never really bother with one another, and exist as almost entirely separate hobbies. There is some crossover, but most of the newcomers will never be tuning a finicky K&B .61, nor will they need to.

One or two high profile incidents happen to FPV pilots who are both experienced and should have known better. These aren't newbies with no respect to the hobby, but otherwise respected modellers who acted dangerously and gained widespread attention.

A clueless media steps in and starts making things worse, demonizing the hobby as a whole and reporting on every "drone" scare they can come up with. Most are completely bogus.

Legislators get involved and implicitly use the terms FPV and Drone, not knowing the slightest about what they actually are.

The traditional hobbyist, having never been a part of the new wave of the hobby, nor really been interested, begins hearing these horror stories, and assumes it must be the result of these new technological developments.

In reality, it's the huge resurgent of interest in the hobby that's allowed these accidents to happen.

The fact is, we've been trying for years to get people interested in our hobby, and it has finally paid off. Advances have been made in materials and technology that just aren't being adopted by the traditional modeller, and as a result, the scope of the hobby has expanded enormously, easily the biggest change since the onset of proportional radios and glow engines.

The hobby can no longer be judged by what we hold as "R/C modelling", in the same way that you can't expect a carriage builder to conform to automotive crash-test standards.

Maybe we do need some new regulation, but that isn't going to exempt the minority traditional modeller, nor should it; 99% of the new guys fly as safely as 99% of our guys, and are just as involved and passionate about it as us.