Originally Posted by
OliverJacob
They should be stopped at all cost. If one of their delivery drones causes damage to a person or property, we'll get some more restrictions on our rc planes, probably drive most of us out of the hobby in the long run.
It's all fun and games until you regulate it to death, should we bring a lawyer with us when we fly our toy planes?
Btw, Walmart sells rc planes now, just found out. Not just the foam toys. Interesting.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Fling-Spor...fwt=popupBlank
Progress is not going to be stopped. People probably said the same things about the first automobiles too, and look at all the regulation and safety rules we have on those, and how many people they maim and kill a year. You can rest assure any of these companies thinking about doing this will have tried to perfect it as good as possible, and as a backup, have muiltple layers of insurance for millions and millions of dollars. Car accidents can cost that much, think about a delivery drone falling out of the sky and causing a greyhound bus full of people to plow into a van filled with boyscouts, which explodes, while the bus continues off the road hitting an Amtrack train causing it to derail. Yes, a one in a million scenario, but stuff like this happens everyday (perhaps not as bad). So the lawyers will all have a field day with it of course, Walmart doesn't pay out of pocket their insurance companies do.
Weird to see Walmart selling that stuff, has to be online only (they are trying to compete with Amazon). I've never seen more than a Air Hogs type of plane on a shelf.