DJI voluntarily created its geofencing feature, so it makes a certain degree of sense that the company would get rid of it now that the US government no longer seems to appreciate its help, is blocking some of its drone imports, calls DJI a “Chinese Military Company,” and has started the countdown clock on a de facto import ban.
That sounds exactly like how Trump does business, tit for tat and quid pro quos… thats also why Zuck is acting out - gonna be a wild 4 years
You mispelled depressing. For some reason you spelled it as “wild”.
Wildly depressing!
You misspelled life. For some reason, you spelt it as “Wildly depressing”.
“gonna be a life 4 years”
gonna be a wild 4 lifes.
He also mispelled forever. For some reason he spelled it as “4 years”.
Joking about this is part of how it slowly gains acceptance. Let’s just not
4 years
I kinda hate this. What I’d really like is the option to turn it on or off. I live near an airport airspace boundary and it’s nice to have that wall keeping me from straying into airspace I’m not authorized for, but at the same time, sometimes the drone freezes and won’t come back, so it’d be great to be able to get full control back temporarily.
Their reasoning is to give responsibility back to the pilot. A responsible pilot might want that guard rail. Having it as an option only makes sense.
They were about the only hobbyist level drone manufacturer that was doing any sort of geofencing at all. Unsurprising they stopped when none of the other companies saw repercussions for not doing it.
They’re the only hobbyist manufacturer with any scale. If you look at the Dedrone stats it’s just entirely the DJI show followed by AUTEL by a mile and then DIY stuff. The DIY drones can be built from anything and can be trivially designed to avoid surveillance so you’re not gonna get anywhere with them anyway.
DJI pilots are either very skilled professionals or inconsiderate wannabe photographers. Freestyle quad pilots rule.
Yeah the FPV community is way better because they actually have to know what they’re doing mostly. They’re mildly noncompliant but only regarding the regs that shouldn’t apply to the size of stuff they fly; RID, registration, and BVLOS don’t make sense for airframes lighter than a goose. They tend to avoid other people because they understand the public is wary of drones and they’re wary of Karens and untrained cops. They put far more hours on their airframes than any of the other amateur operators but every single time I’ve been near a drone doing something dangerous, stupid, or annoying it was a DJI.
So, just like how pretty much every other drone manufacturers drones already work. Somehow people only give DJI shit over this and develop a curious blind spot about everybody else.
It is trivially easy for anyone with thumbs to kit-build a drone with no regulatory compliance whatsoever, in nearly any size, with absurd range and capabilities, for just a few hundred dollars. Despite that state of affairs having been the case for years, this has mysteriously failed to cause the Earth to fall out of its orbit into the sun.
IDK, most of the kits require soldering (because the industry is fundamentally braindead) and if you go look at the various online communities, you’ll quickly see that this is one hell of a filter.
We were taught that at high school…
Same here, but I’d still be pretty annoyed if I had to do it to put together a drone, it’s a pain in the ass.
Soldering is so easy.
Yhe worst part of soldering is losing your soldering iron every 7 years between the times you need it.
One of my many hobbies is electronics and messing with electronic instruments so I use mine fairly often.
i’m scared of the magic cancer smoke
Just get the lead free solder and no clean flux, it’s much less cancer
Yeah lead free solder is perfectly fine.
Where I live, lead solder is even illegal to sell and buy unless you have a permit which is impossible to get for individuals
Lead free sucks ass and you can pry my leaded solder from my cold dead hands.
Seriously just wash your hands.
What about the fumes?
Fumes don’t contain lead, it’s not nearly hot enough. Those fumes are flux burning.
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so what if no other manufacturers do it? Maybe they should be forced to.
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the hyperbole at the end of your comment is not necessary or helpful. We literally just saw a drone ground a firefighting plane in Los Angeles, so we know they can cause major problems at the worst possible times. Maybe it’s not a big deal on an everyday basis, but in disasters like the Los Angeles Fires of course more idiot content creators than usual are going to have their drone in the air collecting footage.
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more and more people are getting drones so there are only going to be more and more problems as they grow in popularity.
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“We’re looking to expand into the terrorist market. We see it as a growth industry given the mounting civil unrest all over the world.”
This will last exactly as long as it takes somebody to fly a drone into the side of the White House. Not any kind of special drone, just some idiot trying to get a cool shot for their YouTube channel.
DJI is about to get banned anyways, so they just don’t care anymore
