Google could use spy drones for UK mapping

[Simon]

Google could be allowed to use unmanned spy drones in the UK to gather information for its Google Maps and Street View services.

The news follows reports that the web giant had ordered at least one drone from German company Microdrones, which has supplied unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to UK police and special forces.

"The drones are well suited to deliver up-to-date image material for Google Maps," Microdrones CEO Sven Juerss told business publication Wirtschafts Woche.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/360148/google-could-use-spy-drones-for-uk-mapping

[Rik]

Is nowhere going to be safe from this organisation?

[Simon]

Seems not, particularly if you like nude sun-bathing.

[Rik]

Drones over Brighton.

[JB]

Might be time to get one of these ultra high power lasers from Hong Kong 

[Rik]

 

They could be just the thing, couldn't they.

[Glenn]

Pointing one at an aircraft, comes with a possible prison sentence if caught, not sure how it applies to an unmanned aircraft though?

[Rik]

I would have thought it would be difficult to prosecute since there isn't a pilot to blind. OTOH, you'd have to be able to prove that you knew it was unmanned.

[Niall]

I would have thought it would be difficult to prosecute since there isn't a pilot to blind. OTOH, you'd have to be able to prove that you knew it was unmanned.

Not to mention what it'd land on if you knocked it out of the sky

[pctech]

Here's hoping the ConDems deny them permission and authorise the RAF to shoot them down.

Oh wait...

[john]

I would have thought it would be difficult to prosecute since there isn't a pilot to blind. OTOH, you'd have to be able to prove that you knew it was unmanned.

With a maximum payload of 1200 grams that shouldn't prove to difficult 

Seems not, particularly if you like nude sun-bathing.

Lasers won't be needed, one sight of my naked body should be quite sufficient to ground them 

[JB]

Having been a civil aircraft captain for the last 25 years, I think I know how to:-

1) Not point one at a real aeroplane

2) Not force a drone to land on a populated area

3) Decide if an aircraft is bigger than 1200 grams

4) Sunbathe naked without being observed. (Shades of Airplane?)

BFG.

[Rik]

 

With a maximum payload of 1200 grams that shouldn't prove to difficult 

But I've been on a diet.