Another example of the free market being awesome in comparison to government.

[AnCap Dave]

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The government uses drones to skill and spy on people.

The free market uses it to our convenience.

[FSBlueApocalypse]

WANT!

[Skm1091]

Woot Woot!

[MrBogosity]

They're also now used by a lot of videographers as a low-cost alternative to expensive helicopter and crane shots:

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ME WANT!

[evensgrey]

They're also now used by a lot of videographers as a low-cost alternative to expensive helicopter and crane shots:

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ME WANT!

Not just videographers, either.  Anyone who frequently needs to get a look at something that's awkward to reach, like inspecting the outside of a large structure (sure, you can have an access rig to allow you to get at it, but if you're trying to inspect the underside of a bridge, it's bloody awkward to get at that way, so why should you if you don't actually need to get your hands on it), or examine things like the tops of trees in a forest (climbing the damn things really isn't a feasible way to examine the top few feet of any tree, and forget about it if you need daily checks on dozens of them).  Any situation where it would be useful to be able to quickly go get a high-quality image of something out of easy reach can benefit from this technology.  The low cost, convenience, and speed make it feasible to inspect structures this way much more frequently than most other methods, making it less likely that a dangerous problem will arise between inspections.

Oh, and they're rather fun to fly, too, if you're in to that sort of thing.

[Travis Retriever]

Kinda puts a dent in the "if the free market had stuff like this they'd be no different or worse with it!" crap some statists like to say.  Not like the free market could not have developed this technology either--only better in every way.
I say this because how many people think WWII was responsible for the huge amount of technological and economic advancement following the war?

[FSBlueApocalypse]

[Ibrahim90]

WANT!

if they can drop shawermas onto my house, I would totally get one too: just fly it to the restaurants and back.

[MrBogosity]

I can imagine a restaurant delivery service using these things.

[Travis Retriever]

I can imagine a restaurant delivery service using these things.

Can you imagine doctors making house-calls by being transported with them?

[FSBlueApocalypse]

I can imagine a restaurant delivery service using these things.

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[Skm1091]

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Mmm Pizza

[Travis Retriever]

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Oh.  Sweet.  Lord. *drools*

[tnu]

Can you imagine doctors making house-calls by being transported with them?

I can imagine doing it via the drone's remore operated appendages without even having to eave their office. Though for that matter I canimagine3this supplant5ing publiic transportation and in the future even eliminating the need for roads.

[evensgrey]

I can imagine doing it via the drone's remore operated appendages without even having to eave their office. Though for that matter I canimagine3this supplant5ing publiic transportation and in the future even eliminating the need for roads.

Due to the energy consumption differences (at least, with rotor wing craft) roads are definitely a better option cost-wise for local transport of anything large.  Really cheap air transport is needed to eliminate roads and rails.  (Rail, incidentally, is far cheaper to operate than road transport for goods transport, the problem is the high maintenance cost for rail lines, which makes them impractical to put in as many places as roads.)